[Ssh-sftp-perl-users] input must be 8 bytes long at Crypt/DES.pm line 57

[Glen F. <gfo...@ho...>]

Hi I'm a newbie to perl and I was trying to write a script to read a xml 
with all the info for the connection and all the commands that need to run 
on the remote machine. I was using Net::SSH::Perl and it works if I don't 
get the variables from the xml, but if I read the xml using XML::Simple or 
XML:Smart it give the the following error:

input must be 8 bytes long at 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i586-linux-thread-multi/Crypt/DES.pm line 57.

If I put in the info to login to the ssh server hardcoded in the script it 
works but when ever I use the variables that were read by the XML modules it 
give me the error.

If I hardcode the login info to the script and then try to use commands that 
were read from the xml script it give me the same error.

Can someone help me please!!!

Thanks in advance,
Glen

I'm running:
opensuse 10.1. Net
This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i586-linux-thread-multi
Net-SSH-Perl-1.30
Crypt-DES-2.05
XML-Simple-2.16
XML-Smart-1.6.9
cpan script version 1.03
CPAN.pm version 1.7602


The script is:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use XML::Smart;
use Net::SSH::Perl;

my $XML = XML::Smart->new($ARGV[0]);

my $host = $XML->{Server}->{ip};
my $user = $XML->{Server}->{user};
my $password = $XML->{Server}->{password};

my $ssh = Net::SSH::Perl->new ($host);
$ssh->login($user, $password);
print "Connected...\n";


The XML --------------------------------
<Server>
	<ip>10.10.10.10</ip>
	<user>userName</user>
	<password>password</password>
        <Commands>
		<Command>cd d:/</Command>
	</Commands>
</Server>

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