Bug #43392 for Net-SSH-Perl: Bug: SSH authentication with private key

Dear sir, Currently I'm working on a school project, and I'm using your package for establishing a SSH connection. We want to use our private key, so we don't have to supply our password in the Perl file. When using this identity-file the package just locks up, and doesn't make the connection. Script-code: #! /usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Net::SSH::Perl; # Use native SSH #my $ssh = `ssh 503569\@192.168.255.1 uptime`; #chomp($ssh); #print "uptime: $ssh\n"; my $ssh = Net::SSH::Perl->new("192.168.255.1",interactive => 1, debug => 1, privileged => 0,protocol => '2', identity_files =>["/root/.ssh/id_rsa"], options => ["User 503569", "RhostsAuthentication no"]); $ssh ->login(); my($stdout,$err,$exit)=$ssh->cmd("uptime"); print $stdout."\n"; Debug output: nwlabo:/scripts# perl PerlSSH.pl nwlabo: Reading configuration data /root/.ssh/config nwlabo: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config nwlabo: Connecting to 192.168.255.1, port 22. nwlabo: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_4.7p1 Debian-8ubuntu1.2 nwlabo: Net::SSH::Perl Version 1.34, protocol version 2.0. nwlabo: No compat match: OpenSSH_4.7p1 Debian-8ubuntu1.2. nwlabo: Connection established. nwlabo: Sent key-exchange init (KEXINIT), wait response. nwlabo: Algorithms, c->s: 3des-cbc hmac-sha1 none nwlabo: Algorithms, s->c: 3des-cbc hmac-sha1 none nwlabo: Entering Diffie-Hellman Group 1 key exchange. nwlabo: Sent DH public key, waiting for reply. nwlabo: Received host key, type 'ssh-dss'. nwlabo: Host '192.168.255.1' is known and matches the host key. nwlabo: Computing shared secret key. nwlabo: Verifying server signature. nwlabo: Waiting for NEWKEYS message. nwlabo: Send NEWKEYS. nwlabo: Enabling encryption/MAC/compression. nwlabo: Sending request for user-authentication service. nwlabo: Service accepted: ssh-userauth. nwlabo: Trying empty user-authentication request. nwlabo: Authentication methods that can continue: publickey,password. nwlabo: Next method to try is publickey. nwlabo: Trying pubkey authentication with key file '/root/.ssh/id_rsa' strace ./PerlSSH.pl 2>&1: stat64("/scripts/../../../../lib/Convert/PEM/CBC.pmc", 0xbfac902c) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64("/scripts/../../../../lib/Convert/PEM/CBC.pm", 0xbfac8f3c) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64("/scripts/../../../lib/Convert/PEM/CBC.pmc", 0xbfac902c) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64("/scripts/../../../lib/Convert/PEM/CBC.pm", 0xbfac8f3c) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64("/scripts/../../lib/Convert/PEM/CBC.pmc", 0xbfac902c) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64("/scripts/../../lib/Convert/PEM/CBC.pm", 0xbfac8f3c) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64("/etc/perl/Convert/PEM/CBC.pmc", 0xbfac902c) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64("/etc/perl/Convert/PEM/CBC.pm", 0xbfac8f3c) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64("/usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8/Convert/PEM/CBC.pmc", 0xbfac902c) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64("/usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8/Convert/PEM/CBC.pm", 0xbfac8f3c) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64("/usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Convert/PEM/CBC.pmc", 0xbfac902c) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64("/usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Convert/PEM/CBC.pm", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=6469, ...}) = 0 open("/usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Convert/PEM/CBC.pm", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 6 ioctl(6, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xbfac8d48) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for device) _llseek(6, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR) = 0 read(6, "# $Id: CBC.pm 1829 2005-05-25 21"..., 4096) = 4096 _llseek(6, 2648, [2648], SEEK_SET) = 0 _llseek(6, 0, [2648], SEEK_CUR) = 0 close(6) = 0 read(5, "}-----\";\n my $content = encod"..., 4096) = 4096 _llseek(5, 5609, [5609], SEEK_SET) = 0 _llseek(5, 0, [5609], SEEK_CUR) = 0 close(5) = 0 read(4, "_name . \' \' . encode_base64( $_["..., 4096) = 3260 _llseek(4, 5779, [5779], SEEK_SET) = 0 _llseek(4, 0, [5779], SEEK_CUR) = 0 close(4) = 0 open("/root/.ssh/id_rsa", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 4 ioctl(4, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xbfac9b38) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for device) _llseek(4, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR) = 0 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=1679, ...}) = 0 fcntl64(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=1679, ...}) = 0 read(4, "-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----\n"..., 4096) = 1679 read(4, "", 4096) = 0 close(4) = 0 brk(0x8c3b000) = 0x8c3b000