*Trying to connect host 1 (windows xp) to host 2(fedora core8) via SSH and a public key. *Using Perl Activestate perl 5.10 *I tested first with password auth and was successful. *Trying to use a putty generated SSH2 -RSA keypair and it fails to connect. *The only change I have made from working to non working is the auth type, from password to key. Here is my code - Does anything appear to be wrong here? 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use Net::SSH2;



my $buflen = 100;
my $buf = '0' x $buflen;

my $ssh2 = Net::SSH2->new();

$ssh2->connect('10.1.1.85','22') or die;

#$ssh2->debug(1);

$ssh2->auth_publickey('root','pub.pub','priv.ppk','toor')
  or die "Unable to login $! \n";

my $chan1 = $ssh2->channel();

$chan1->blocking(1);

$chan1->exec('df');
$chan1->read($buf, $buflen);
print "BUF: ", $buf, "\n";

$chan1->close;

#my $chan2 = $ssh2->channel();

#$chan2->blocking(1);

#$chan2->exec('echo $HOME');
#$chan2->read($buf, $buflen);
#print "BUF: ", $buf, "\n";

#$chan2->close;

system ("pause");

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