Having a problem w/ Net::SSH::Perl. I want it to run as close as possible to me running it on the terminal. In other words, try a simple login w/ the rsa keys. The problem is actually 2-fold I believe. 
my @id_files = qw(/home/me/.ssh/id_rsa.pub);
my $ssh = Net::SSH::Perl->new( 'host', debug => 1, protocol => 2, iden
+tity_files => \@id_files );
$ssh->login()
my ( $o, $e, $ex ) = $ssh->cmd( 'uptime' );

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the main problem i get is this output. 
host: Trying empty user-authentication request.
host: Authentication methods that can continue: publickey,keyboard-int
+eractive.
host: Next method to try is publickey.
host: Trying pubkey authentication with key file '/home/me/.ssh/id_rsa
+.pub'
host: Will not query passphrase for '/home/me/.ssh/id_rsa.pub' in batc
+h mode.
 Loading private key failed.

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I can assure you that the id_rsa.pub file is there. If I don't load @id_files implicitly, it seems to default to dsa keys, which will fail for almost all the machines I'm trying to talk to.

The other problem is there seems to be a lot of excess fluff going on that takes up time. "computing shared secret key", etc. Takes several seconds. I'll only be doing about 30 or so machines in off hours, but it would still be nice for it to work "quickly". I could just as easily use the system call to ssh, but it would probably get tricky when I get to a machine w/ a bad key... the input would be stuck on the password prompt. Don't want to deal w/ forking and whatnot with this. Cheers

In reply to Net::SSH::Perl (RSA) by GaijinPunch

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