Hi Perl Monks

I have written the following perl code which connects to a router and executes one command. If you look at the perl script, i have hardcoded username and password credentials used to connect to device. I want to encrypt the password in my perl script.

Can anyone of you suggest as to how this can be achieved

#!/usr/bin/perl
#loading all the required modules
use strict;
use warnings;
use DBI;
use Net::OpenSSH;

$host = q(202.123.43.17);
$hostname = q(TVM-ISP-ACC-SWH-190);
$username = q(netcool);
$password = q(Hello@123);

eval
{
    $ssh = Net::OpenSSH->new($host, user => $username, password => $pa
+ssword, timeout => 10);
    @output = $ssh->capture("admin show environment leds") or die "rem
+ote command failed: " . $ssh->error;
    print LOG "output of command = @output\n";
};
if($@)
{
    print LOG "since we got error w.r.t shell prompt for the IP $host,
+ we are proceeding with next device\n";
    next;
}

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