paramiko no existing session exception
Using the python interactive shell and openssh running locally, I keep getting an "No existing session" exception using paramiko. My code is below.
import paramiko
ssh = paramiko.SSHClient()
ssh.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())
ssh.connect('localhost',username=name,password=pw)
Results in:
No handlers could be found for logger "paramiko.transport"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/paramiko-1.7.7.1-py2.6.egg/paramiko/client.py", line 332, in connect
self._auth(username, password, pkey, key_filenames, allow_agent, look_for_keys)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/paramiko-1.7.7.1-py2.6.egg/paramiko/client.py", line 493, in _auth
raise saved_exception
paramiko.SSHException: No existing session
I was able to connect previously, but had been trying to adjust this to allow for key based authorization. That failed, and since then I have not been able to connect locally. I have tried restarting openssh, and have connected to another server successfully. After searching through here, all I have found are mentions of authorization exceptions, which does not appear to be the case here.
Answer
As you already have password you don't need to talk to agent or look for private keys stored on your machine. So try passing extra parameters allow_agent, look_for_keys:
ssh.connect('localhost',username=name,password=pw,allow_agent=False,look_for_keys=False)