The ssh logs from your server should be very helpful in determining why permission is denied.

You have generated an RSA key but Net::SSH::Perl, on which Net::SFTP is based, uses DSA by default. By default it appears to ignore RSA keys. The version I have also ignores ~/.ssh/identity, despite the documentation that this is one of the default identity files. Therefore, it appears necessary to specify an RSA identity file explicitly.

I have done this with the following configuration:

my %args = (ssh_args => { identity_files => [ "/home/username/.ssh/id_
+rsa" ], } );
$args{debug} = 1;
$args{user} = "username";

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With the identity_files argument to Net::SSH::Perl specified, as above, the id_rsa file was read and authentication completed successfully.

Alternatively, you can create a DSA identity file with ssh-keygen -t dsa. Net::SSH::Perl will use a DSA key named $ENV{HOME}/.ssh/id_dsa by default.

In reply to Re^3: transfer a file via SFTP by ig
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