EXPORT and Net::Openssh

[th'timmay]

i humbly submit my request for a nugget of wisdom o wise monks.

i'm trying to export some variables from a module into another, and that seems to be working as expected, however, net::openssh fails to establish a connection using the imported ones. if i declare the variables locally, everything works fine.

creds.pm

 
#!/usr/local/perl

package Creds;

use warnings;
use strict;

require Exporter;

our @ISA = 'Exporter';
our @EXPORT_OK = qw($user $pass $enpass);

our $user = '....';
our $pass = '....';
our $enpass = '....';

myssh.pl

#! /usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Net::OpenSSH;
use Expect;
use IO::Stty;

use Creds qw($user $pass $enpass);

my $host = $ARGV[0];
my $timeout = 5;

my $ssh = Net::OpenSSH->new("$user:$pass\@$host", timeout => 10);
$ssh->error and die "unable to connect to host: ". $ssh->error;

my ($pty, $pid) = $ssh->open2pty();

my $expect = Expect->init($pty);
$expect->expect($timeout,
        [
                '>' =>
                sub {
                        $expect->send('enable');
                        $expect->send("\r");
                        $expect->expect('Password:');
                        $expect->send($enpass);
                        $expect->send("\r") ;
                        
                }
        ],
        [
                '#'
        ],
);

$expect->interact();

i just keep getting timeout error (unable to connect to host: unable to establish master SSH connection: login timeout at).

any insight is greatly appreciated.