I tried turning on debugging in SSH2 and I'm not sure what it is telling me but there seems to be a hint at the problem. 

d:\Desktop>sshtest
libssh2_knownhost_init(ss->session) -> 0x294be38
Net::SSH2::KnownHosts::DESTROY
Authentication failed (username/password) (-18 LIBSSH2_ERROR_PUBLICKEY
+_UNRECOGNI
ZED) at D:\Desktop\sshtest.pl line 13.
Net::SSH2::DESTROY object 0x247cf08

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It looks almost as though the problem is that the knownhost info is being destroyed before I get to the auth step. The code is 

my $ssh2 = Net::SSH2->new(debug => 1);
$ssh2->connect("shell02.theworld.com") or $ssh2->die_with_error ;
$ssh2->check_hostkey('ask', "d:/profiles/known_hosts.pub") 
    or $ssh2->die_with_error ;
$ssh2->auth_password($login{user}, $login{password}) 
    or $ssh2->die_with_error;

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As if the check_hostkey works and so doesn't "die" but the fact that it works is lost before I do the auth. It is probably a rough trip, but I guess I should take a look at the code for auth_password and see what it is expecting for its public key check, and then work backwards to see what check_hostkey is supposed to leave behind to make auth_password happy. Everything is so hard...:o)

In reply to Re^2: Can't get $ssh2->check_hostkey to work by BernieC
in thread Can't get $ssh2->check_hostkey to work by BernieC

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