I am trying to connect to a test device on my local network using paramiko and SSH. If I specify the filename of my key and its passphrase, I can connect to the device without a problem. However, since my script is meant to run on any machine that has the key added to the ssh-agent, I am trying to
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Upload large file using multiple connections/threads to an SFTP server with Python Paramiko
I am trying to SFTP a file to a remote server in chunks using threads and the python paramiko library. It opens a local file and sftp chunks to the remote server in different threads. I am basically following this solution which uses the same approach to download large file over SFTP. I would like to send lar…
How to skip lines when printing output from Paramiko SSH
So I built a program that prints out the login logs of my ubuntu server using tail -f. The program uses Paramiko to connect via ssh and runs the command to tail the logs. The program works but it prints out the motd from the server which is unnecessary. I’ve tried splicing using itertools. Tried using n…
Fabric 2 automating deployment error when git pulling on remote server. Repository not found
I’m trying to automate my deployment with Fabric 2. When I manually do a git pull through the command line on the remote server everything works fine. When I try to do the same with my Fabric/Invoke script it does not allow me to pull. It does though allow me to do git status and other commands. The cod…
aws sam build not able to build packages which require paramiko due to “Error: PythonPipBuilder:ResolveDependencies”
I’ve been learning the ropes with AWS SAM and have successfully deployed a number of lambdas together with dependencies and other AWS services. However, I seem to have run into a problem when trying to deploy a lambda which relies on some specific dependencies. Here is my requirements.txt file: This fil…
pysftp vs. Paramiko
I have a simple requirement to drop a file on an SFTP server. I have found pysftp and Paramiko libraries that seem to allow me to this and developed a simple application using Paramiko but I can’t find a proper source that compares the two so I can decide which one I can/should use. What are the pros an…
pysftp — paramiko SSHException, Bad host key from server
I’m trying to connect to a remote host via pysftp: However, I get a weird exception raised that I can’t find much detail on. I found a related question that suggested I run ssh-keygen -R [host] to replace the key in my known_hosts file — once I did that, I got a new error: Now, if I try to s…
Execute a command on Remote Machine in Python
I am writing a program in python on Ubuntu, to execute a command ls -l on RaspberryPi, connect with Network. Can anybody guide me on how do I do that? Answer Sure, there are several ways to do it! Let’s say you’ve got a Raspberry Pi on a raspberry.lan host and your username is irfan. subprocess It…
Python Paramiko – Run command
I’m try to run this script: The question is: how can I put the variables y,m,d into the variable command ? Answer Python has lots of ways to perform string formatting. One of the simplest is to simply concatenate the parts of your string together:
How to create a SSH tunnel using Python and Paramiko?
I need to create tunneling to read information from a database. I use Paramiko, but I have not worked with tunneling yet. Please provide an example of a simple code that creates and closes a tunnel. Answer At work we usually create ssh tunnels forwarding ports. The way we do that is, by using the standard com…