Here's one that works:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use strict 'vars';
use Getopt::Std;

#Setting options
# u:username
# h:hostname
# p:password
# k:SSH Key
getopts("u:h:p:k:");

our ($opt_u, $opt_h);

#### TEST SECTION ###
print "opts::$opt_u\n";
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In your version, you refer to $opts::opt_u, which is a package variable in the "opts" package. strict won't complain about that because you've given the full name of the package variable, but that doesn't change the fact that there's nothing in it. Your call to getopt will set $main::opt_u instead (because that's what package it's called in).

Update: Unrelated to your problem... use strict 'vars'; is unnecessary once you have used use strict;. See strict.

 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use strict 'vars';
use Getopt::Std;

#Setting options
# u:username
# h:hostname
# p:password
# k:SSH Key

our ($opt_u, $opt_h, $opt_p, $opt_k);

getopts("u:h:p:k:");

#### TEST SECTION ###
print "\$opt_u=";
print $opt_u ? $opt_u : "Undefined" ;
print "\n";

print "\$opt_h=";
print $opt_h ? $opt_h : "Undefined" ;
print "\n";

print "\$opt_p=";
print $opt_p ? $opt_p : "Undefined" ;
print "\n";

print "\$opt_k=";
print $opt_k ? $opt_k : "Undefined" ;
print "\n";


$ ./test.pl 
$opt_u=Undefined
$opt_h=Undefined
$opt_p=Undefined
$opt_k=Undefined

$ ./test.pl  -u abc -h def -p ghi -k jkl                              
+   
$opt_u=abc
$opt_h=def
$opt_p=ghi
$opt_k=jkl
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I have gotten into the habit of checking options using defined just in case 0 is a legal value. The code you show treats 0 as an undefined value.

$ ./test.pl -u 0
$opt_u=Undefined
$opt_h=Undefined
$opt_p=Undefined
$opt_k=Undefined
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I realize that in this particular application, 0 is unlikely to be a username, password, etc., but it does not hurt to account for this corner case:

print "\$opt_u=";
print defined $opt_u ? $opt_u : "Undefined" ;
print "\n";
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