I want to automate a specific task using python.
This task includes, among some other things, connecting with ssh to a remote server, and running a specific program (call it prog.out) that may or may not ask for user input.
After some research and after weighting my options, I decided to use Python’s Paramiko (which may turned out to be wrong, considering the below…).
I want to run a tail -f logfile command on a remote machine using python’s paramiko module. I’ve been attempting it so far in the following fashion:
If I use pubkey auth from e.g.: an Ubuntu 11.04 how can I set the ssh client to use only password auth to a server? (just needed because of testing passwords on a server, where I default log in with key)
I used to think SCP is a tool to copy files over SSH, and copying files over SSH is called SFTP, which is itself a synonym to FISH.
I wish to use shell to invoke a script on a remote server.
I would like to capture the output of that script (its logging messages) and the exit code it returns.
I’m going to be deploying a number of machines in the near future which will be behind routers. It won’t be feasible to set up dynamic DNS on each router and port forwarding, so is there a way I can configure these machines to initiate a TCP connection to my computer and then have my computer initiate a SSH connection to the remote computer over that connection?
I read an answer from a user who claimed that running
I use screen for my command-line tasks while managing the servers where I work. I usually run small commands (mostly file-system tasks) but sometimes I run more extensive tasks (like DBA).
I have a few servers configured in ~/.ssh/config, such as alpha and beta. How might I configure Bash such that the commands $ ssh alTab and $ scp file.tgz alTab autocomplete the names of the configured servers?
I’ve seen the questions and answers about needing to double-escape the arguments to remote ssh commands. My question is: Exactly where and when does the second parsing get done?