And specific issue I *think* is that it adds "PreferredAuthentications=keyboard-interactive,password" which probably results in not being able to auth against "relay" host with public key auth. If both relay and dest hosts had same type auth - either both pub key or both password then this would not be a problem. 
# call args: ['ssh','-o','CheckHostIP no','-o','ConnectionAttempts 2',
+'-o','ForwardAgent yes','-o','HashKnownHosts no','-o','StrictHostKeyC
+hecking=no','-o','VerifyHostKeyDNS no','-o','UserKnownHostsFile /dev/
+null','-o','ConnectTimeout 15','-o','HostbasedAuthentication no','-o'
+,'ChallengeResponseAuthentication no','-o','RhostsRSAAuthentication n
+o','-o','GSSAPIAuthentication no','-vvv','-o','PasswordAuthentication
+ yes','-o','PubkeyAuthentication yes','-o','PreferredAuthentications=
+publickey,password','-o','NumberOfPasswordPrompts=2','-o','ProxyComma
+nd=ssh root@192.168.1.1 nc %h 22','-o','ServerAliveInterval=30','-x2M
+N','-o','NumberOfPasswordPrompts=1','-o','PreferredAuthentications=ke
+yboard-interactive,password','-S','/root/.libnet-openssh-perl/root-XX
+XXX','-l','root','10.20.30.40','--']

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in thread Establishing SSH tunnel and opening another SSH connection through it by tehcook

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