Perform commands over ssh with Python

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fredley picture fredley · Aug 27, 2010 · Viewed 472.9k times · Source

I'm writing a script to automate some command line commands in Python. At the moment I'm doing calls thus:

cmd = "some unix command"
retcode = subprocess.call(cmd,shell=True)

However I need to run some commands on a remote machine. Manually, I would log in using ssh and then run the commands. How would I automate this in Python? I need to log in with a (known) password to the remote machine, so I can't just use cmd = ssh user@remotehost, I'm wondering if there's a module I should be using?

Answer

shahjapan picture shahjapan · Aug 27, 2010

I will refer you to paramiko

see this question

ssh = paramiko.SSHClient()
ssh.connect(server, username=username, password=password)
ssh_stdin, ssh_stdout, ssh_stderr = ssh.exec_command(cmd_to_execute)

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