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6 Net::SSH::Perl::Auth::PublicKey - Perform publickey authentication
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9 use Net::SSH::Perl::Auth;
10 my $auth = Net::SSH::Perl::Auth->new('PublicKey', $ssh);
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14 Net::SSH::Perl::Auth::PublicKey performs publickey authentication with
15 a remote sshd server. When you create a new PublicKey auth object, you
16 give it an $ssh object, which should contain an open connection to an
17 ssh daemon, as well as any data that the authentication module needs to
18 proceed. In this case, for example, the $ssh object might contain a
19 list of identity files (see the docs for Net::SSH::Perl).
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21 The authenticate method first tries to establish a connection to an
22 authentication agent. If the attempt is successful, authenticate loops
23 through each of the identities returned from the agent and tries each
24 identity against the sshd, entering into a dialog with the server: the
25 client sends the public portion of the key to determine whether the
26 server will accept it; if the server accepts the key as authorization,
27 the client then asks the agent to sign a piece of data using the key,
28 which the client sends to the server. If the server accepts an
29 identity/key, authentication is successful.
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31 If the agent connection attempt fails, or if none of the identities
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33 authenticate then tries to load each of the user's private key identity
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35 $ENV{HOME}/.ssh/id_dsa). For each identity, authenticate enters into a
36 dialog with the server. The client sends a message to the server,
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40 verifies the signature using the client's public key. If the
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43 When loading each of the private key files, the client first tries to
44 load the key using an empty passphrase. If this fails, the client
45 either prompts the user for a passphrase (if the session is
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49 Please see the Net::SSH::Perl manpage for author, copyright, and
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