Perfect suggestion!! In the code I had 

$ssh2->auth_password($login{user}, $login{password}) ;
$ssh2->auth_ok() ;

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and I was assuming that auth_ok was telling me truth. Not so. As you suggested, I put in an explicit error check on the auth_password and now I get: 
d:\Desktop>sshtest
Authentication failed (username/password) (-18 LIBSSH2_ERROR_PUBLICKEY
+_UNRECOGNI
ZED) at D:\Desktop\sshtest.pl line 13.

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Now I have to figure out what PUBLICKEY_UNRECOGNIZED means. I think it means that it doesn't recognize the servers key and I need to figure out how to get that "accepted" -- I know I've had to do that in my sftp and ssh clients, I didn't think it'd be a problem with this. Is it worth a bug-report on Net::SSH2 that auth_ok doesn't seem to work?

In reply to Re^4: Net:SSH2 channels by BernieC
in thread Net:SSH2 channels by BernieC

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