Just started experimenting with Perl, and my goal in this little project is to ssh to remote host(s) and process some files, run some commands, and stuff..I am able to ssh user@localhost from the command line but I seem to be doing something wrong in my script:

my $ssh = Net::SSH::Perl->new($host, debug=>1, protocol=>'2', identity
+_files=>["/Users/jaldama /.ssh/id_dsa.pub"],
);
$ssh->login($user);
.
.
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and this is what happens!:

jaldama$ perl hostcheck.pl
Jackie-Aldamas-MacBook.local: Reading configuration data /Users/jaldam
+a/.ssh/config
Jackie-Aldamas-MacBook.local: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_conf
+ig
Jackie-Aldamas-MacBook.local: Connecting to localhost, port 22.
Jackie-Aldamas-MacBook.local: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote soft
+ware version OpenSSH_5.2
Math::BigInt: couldn't load specified math lib(s), fallback to Math::B
+igInt::FastCalc at /Library/Perl/5.10.0/Crypt/DH.pm line 6
Jackie-Aldamas-MacBook.local: Net::SSH::Perl Version 1.34, protocol ve
+rsion 2.0.
.ackie-Aldamas-MacBook.local: No compat match: OpenSSH_5.2
Jackie-Aldamas-MacBook.local: Connection established.
Jackie-Aldamas-MacBook.local: Sent key-exchange init (KEXINIT), wait r
+esponse.
Jackie-Aldamas-MacBook.local: Algorithms, c->s: 3des-cbc hmac-sha1 non
+e
Jackie-Aldamas-MacBook.local: Algorithms, s->c: 3des-cbc hmac-sha1 non
+e
Jackie-Aldamas-MacBook.local: Entering Diffie-Hellman Group 1 key exch
+ange.
Jackie-Aldamas-MacBook.local: Sent DH public key, waiting for reply.
Jackie-Aldamas-MacBook.local: Received host key, type 'ssh-dss'.
Jackie-Aldamas-MacBook.local: Host 'localhost' is known and matches th
+e host key.
Jackie-Aldamas-MacBook.local: Computing shared secret key.
Jackie-Aldamas-MacBook.local: Verifying server signature.
Jackie-Aldamas-MacBook.local: Waiting for NEWKEYS message.
Jackie-Aldamas-MacBook.local: Send NEWKEYS.
Jackie-Aldamas-MacBook.local: Enabling encryption/MAC/compression.
Jackie-Aldamas-MacBook.local: Sending request for user-authentication 
+service.
Jackie-Aldamas-MacBook.local: Service accepted: ssh-userauth.
Jackie-Aldamas-MacBook.local: Trying empty user-authentication request
+.
Jackie-Aldamas-MacBook.local: Authentication methods that can continue
+: publickey,keyboard-interactive.
Jackie-Aldamas-MacBook.local: Next method to try is publickey.
Jackie-Aldamas-MacBook.local: Trying pubkey authentication with key fi
+le '/Users/jaldama/.ssh/id_dsa.pub'
Jackie-Aldamas-MacBook.local: Will not query passphrase for '/Users/ja
+ldama/.ssh/id_dsa.pub' in batch mode.
Jackie-Aldamas-MacBook.local: Loading private key failed.
Permission denied at hostcheck.pl line 18
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So I figured maybe I should run in interactive mode so it would prompt for the password...but i'm not being prompted for the password when I set it to 1.