I’ve been attempting to use the Net::SSH module but can’t seem to get everything working. My perl program seems to be able to make the ssh connection to the machine I want, but I can’t run any commands to it. I’ve already set up a passphrase for an RSA key, which is being prompted for (I’ve tested this authentication on Putty and it works).

OpenSSH version 5.1p1
Perl v5.10.0 built for cygwin-thread-multi-64int
Module Net::OpenSSH 0.36
Windows XP Professional

The following is my code:
#filename:  ingest.pl

# start of Net::OpenSSH
use Net::OpenSSH;

my $host = '************';
my $port = '22';
my $user = 'root';
my $pass = '***********';

my $ssh = Net::OpenSSH->new($host);
$ssh->error and die "couldn't establish connection:  " . $ssh->error;

$ssh->system("ls") or die "remote command failed:  " . $ssh->error;

my @ls = $ssh->capture("ls");
$ssh->error and die "remote ls command failed:  " . $ssh->error;

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This returns the following lines as the errors, for which I can’t seem to find any good support on. I appreciate your time and any suggestions you might have. Thankyou.

mm_receive_fd: no message header
muxserver_accept_control: failed to receive fd 0 from slave
ssh_msg_recv: read: header
muxclient: msg_recv
remote command failed: child exited with code 255 at ingest.pl line 209

In reply to Module Net::OpenSSH error child exited with code 255 by steelcarn99

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