SSHing in with an explicit user/password seems not to work for me using Net::SSH::Perl.

This seems to be the same problem, or a related problem, as in Net::SSH::Perl gotcha!

That was back in 2002, and I'm thinking there must be a fix in, or at least a better understanding of the problem. But I looked around and couldn't find anything.

Here is a snip from my terminal to show what is going wrong

Is there some gotcha involving Net::SSH::Perl that I need to know about? 

$ ssh thartman@localhost # works fine
Password:
Linux none 2.4.29-linode39-1um #1 Wed Jan 19 12:22:14 EST 2005 i686 GN
+U/Linux... etc, etc
$ exit # get back to my original process
logout
Connection to localhost closed.
$ cat net-ssh-perl.t # the code to connect via Net::SSH::Perl
use strict;
use warnings;

use Net::SSH::Perl;
use IO::Prompt;

my $ssh_box = 'localhost';
my $ssh_login = prompt "$ssh_box user: ";

my $ssh_password = prompt "$ssh_box password: ", -e => '*';

my $ssh = Net::SSH::Perl->new($ssh_box);

$ssh->login($ssh_login, $ssh_password);
$ perl net-ssh-perl.t # same login, same password
localhost user: thartman
localhost password: *********
Permission denied at net-ssh-perl.t line 14
$ head -n14 net-ssh-perl.t | tail -n 1 # echo line 14 -- of course, it
+'s the login
$ssh->login($ssh_login, $ssh_password);
$

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Much obliged for anybody that can point me in the right direction.

UPDATE, fwiw, doing the same thing with Net::SSH works fine 

$ perl net-ssh.t
localhost user: thartman
localhost command: ls
blee
learning
nbarter
pari-2.1.7
pari-2.1.7.tgz
pimpmycat
pmc_external_dependencies
shellenv
$ cat net-ssh.t
use strict;
use warnings;

use Net::SSH qw(sshopen2);
use IO::Prompt;

my $ssh_box = "localhost";

my $user = prompt "$ssh_box user: ";;
my $cmd = prompt "$ssh_box command: ";

sshopen2("$user\@$ssh_box", *READER, *WRITER, "$cmd") || die "ssh: $!"
+;

while (<READER>) {
    chomp();
    print "$_\n";
  }

close(READER);
close(WRITER);

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In reply to Is Net::SSH::Perl broken for login via explicit user/password? by tphyahoo

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