Hi,

I am using Net:SSH::Perl to establish a SSH connection but get an error when using variables as user and password.

The source code: 
print("Username: ");
$user = <STDIN>;
chomp($user);

print("Pass: ");
$pass = <STDIN>;
chomp($pass);

$ssh->login($user,$pass); 

# $ssh is introduced earlier, of course

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does not work !

The error message is: 

input must be 8 bytes long at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linu
+x-thread-multi/Crypt/DES.pm line 57.

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When not using variables everything works fine: 
#source: 

$ssh->login("root","root_pass");

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The same thing happens when using the cmd-function, 
$ssh->cmd($curr_cmd); does not work
$ssh->cmd("ls -l"); DOES work !

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Even the example script cmd.pl, which can be found at http://search.cpan.org/src/BTROTT/Net-SSH-Perl-1.23/eg/cmd.pl does not work and exits with the same error.

Does anybody know where my problem is ? I am running RedHat 9.0 with updated Perl modules (from CPAN).

Thanks for your help.

Markus

edited: Wed Jun 25 13:50:16 2003 by jeffa - code tags, removed br tags, linked url

In reply to Net::SSH::Perl problems with $ssh->login and $ssh->cmd - function by polyp

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