Subject: Re: [libssh2] [BUG] Problems with Net::SSH2

Re: [libssh2] [BUG] Problems with Net::SSH2

From: James Housley <jim_at_thehousleys.net>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:47:57 -0400

On Jul 31, 2007, at 7:42 AM, thermal_at_o2.pl wrote:

> Hi
>
> I`m having serious problems using the Net::SSH2 Perl binding for
> libssh2. I`m trying to login to a remote SSH server
> (SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_4.4 on OpenSuse) but the keyboard-interactive
> authentication always fails with a rather weird error:
>
> -6 LIBSSH2_ERROR_ALLOC Unable to allocate memory for
> keyboard-interactive authentication
>
>
> The perl code I`m using is:
>
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> use Net::SSH2;
>
> my $ssh = Net::SSH2->new();
> $ssh->debug(1);
>
> $ssh->connect('10.10.20.129') or die ("Cannot connect: ",
> $ssh->error, "\n");
>
> if ( $ssh->auth_keyboard('root','xxxxxx') ) {
> print "OK\n";
> } else {
> print "Error\n";
> (my $code, my $name, my $desc) = $ssh->error;
> print "$code $name $desc\n";
> }
>
>
> My Net::SSH2 version is 0.10 and I`m using libssh2-0.15. Is there
> anything I can do to hunt down the reason for this strange behaviour ?
> And yes, I`m sure the password is right ;).

There was a bug in 0.15 which has since been fixed. I would suggest
using the latest version from CVS or a daily snapshot.

Jim

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Received on 2007-07-31