I use $ftp = Net::SFTP::Foreign->new(%args); to sftp to Linux machine from HP-UX. It works with no problems.
When I try to connect to an SFTP server installed on Windows, it does not work
$ftp->error contains Connection to remote server is broken error and login procedure timed out when with more => '-v' option.
When I run it with more => '-vvv' I get below log. Can anyone help me understand the issue and help fixing it?
debug1: Host 'windowsHost' is known and matches the RSA host key.
debug1: Found key in /home/user/.ssh/known_hosts:3
debug2: bits set: 4101/8192
debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct
debug2: kex_derive_keys
debug2: set_newkeys: mode 1
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug2: set_newkeys: mode 0
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug1: Roaming not allowed by server
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
debug2: service_accept: ssh-userauth
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug3: input_userauth_banner
Welcome! Please login.
debug1: Authentications that can continue: password,publickey,keyboard-interactive
debug3: start over, passed a different list password,publickey,keyboard-interactive
debug3: preferred keyboard-interactive,password
debug3: authmethod_lookup keyboard-interactive
debug3: remaining preferred: password
debug3: authmethod_is_enabled keyboard-interactive
debug1: Next authentication method: keyboard-interactive
debug2: userauth_kbdint
debug2: we sent a keyboard-interactive packet, wait for reply
debug2: input_userauth_info_req
password
Enter password for user
debug2: input_userauth_info_req: num_prompts 1
debug1: Authentications that can continue: password,publickey,keyboard-interactive
debug2: we did not send a packet, disable method
debug3: authmethod_lookup password
debug3: remaining preferred:
debug3: authmethod_is_enabled password
debug1: Next authentication method: password
debug1: read_passphrase: can't open /dev/tty: No such device or address
debug3: packet_send2: adding 64 (len 55 padlen 9 extra_pad 64)
debug2: we sent a password packet, wait for reply
debug1: Authentications that can continue: password,publickey,keyboard-interactive
debug2: we did not send a packet, disable method
debug1: No more authentication methods to try.
Permission denied (password,publickey,keyboard-interactive).
Please, notice that it works for linux hosts
(Per request from comments) Trying to connect to via SSH to the SFTP server from unix. I don't believe it is supposed to work and it doesn't...
unixServerName ENV:/home/me/scripts/perl=>ssh user\@windowsHost
password
Enter password for user
Password:
shell request failed on channel 0
unixServerName ENV:/home/me/scripts/perl=>
Now using SFTP from command line
unixServerName ENV:/home/me/scripts/perl=>sftp user\@windowsHost
password
Enter password for user
Password:
Connected to windowsHost.
sftp>
sftp> quit
unixServerName ENV:/home/me/scripts/perl=>
The issue was caused by ('#') pound sign character in the password. Super strange. I was able to reproduce the issue on servers from 2 different vendors. So for sure this is a bug in Net::SFTP::Foreign
Notice that this happens only on Windows hosts and works fine for Unix HP and Linux Hosts.
To make my argument a little bit stronger, from command line SSH and SFTP everything works.