I had the same issue. When the user and password are hard coded it works fine, if the values are pulled in from a configuration object it fails: 'input must be 8 bytes long at ...'

This became a problem only after I switched from using a csv config file (that was parsed directly by the script) to an xml config file (that is parsed by a configuration module using XML::Parser).

Now I cannot tell you why this works, and I would love it for someone to explain, but it does. I think for some reason the data cannot be padded correctly for Crypt::DES before this transformation. 

my $pass = $user_data->{password};
my $user = $user_data->{user};
my @pass = split '', $pass;
my @user = split '', $user;
$user = join '', @user;
$pass = join '', @pass;

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in thread Net::SFTP problem, an odd twist. by Anonymous Monk

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