Is it possible to capture the output of stderr in Net::OpenSSH to a variable instead of to a file? In this particular case I want the stderr of the following "new" function not the stderr of commands once I have the connection established. 

my $ssh = Net::OpenSSH->new($host);
  $ssh->error and
    die "Couldn't establish SSH connection: ". $ssh->error;

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ssh->error does not provide all the information I need during a connection failure.
I get different reasons for failure to connect. Some are "administratively denied" other are just "disconnect" and all these messages go to stderr. It looks like I can capture the stderr to a file but I would like to avoid that if possible.

In reply to Handling STDERR when using Net::OpenSSH by mds

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