I've the same problem with a script that run under debian 3.0 for the last years. now, with SuSE 9.2 und perl 5.8.5 I get Permission denied at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Net/SFTP.pm line 37 and this line or 5 lines there look like: sub init { my $sftp = shift; my %param = @_; $sftp->{debug} = delete $param{debug}; $param{ssh_args} ||= []; $sftp->{_msg_id} = 0; my $ssh = Net::SSH::Perl->new($sftp->{host}, protocol => 2, debug => 1, @{ $param{ssh_args} }); AAA $ssh->login($param{user}, $param{password}); $sftp->{ssh} = $ssh; my $channel = $sftp->_open_channel; $sftp->{channel} = $channel; $sftp->do_init; $sftp; } Line 37 is where you find "AAA" in the beginning of the line. I don't know much about perl but I've to get it working.... Please help me. Thanks LeeLooB