didnt work :-( It now fails on the login line with the following exception: FIX: .ssh/known_hosts SSHProcessError The ssh process was terminated. at test.pl line 775 However, the following code will catch the exception: 
my $ssh;
   foreach (1..3) {
    eval {
        $ssh = Net::SSH::Expect->new(
            host     => $host,
            password => $password,
            user     => $user,
            raw_pty => 1,
            timeout => 3,
                        binary  => $ssh_exec,
        );
    };
    last if $ssh;
    sleep 1;
}
die "Could not connect to remote host '$host'\n" if not $ssh;
my $login_output = $ssh->login;
$ssh->exec("stty raw -echo"); 
my $resp_uname;
eval {
      $resp_uname = $ssh->exec('uname');
};
if ($@) {
     if ($@ =~ m{SSHConnectionAborted}) {
         die "Invalid username and/or password for OS user $user on th
+e remote server!";
 }else {
      die "Could not connect to remote host '$host' : $@\n";
       }
}

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In reply to Re^4: How to catch/avoid SSHConnectionAborted by daphnaw
in thread How to catch/avoid SSHConnectionAborted by daphnaw

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