[Pyssh-discuss] won't run for some unknown reason ?!

[Julian Schaefer-J. <jul...@t-...>]

Hi,

I recently found myself confronted w/ the problem of remote-controling
ssh. Several approaches w/ popen failed due to password-prompt. When I
found your script I tried it - but it didn' t seem to work for me...
obviously I must be doing something wrong...

TheAddicT@siddhartha:~/swt-miles/proto/engine/ssh> python pyssh.py
command="top -n 0" host=localhost password=<passwd> debug=1
>> child says: "TheAddicT@localhost's password: "
>> child took 9 password bytes
>> sleeping 0 secs
>> child took 9 command bytes
>> child response is '2dAKi4xs\r\n\r\ntop -n 0\r\n'
results =
'<passwd>\r\n\r\ntop -n 0\r\n'

I use linux 2.4
Ssh: OpenSSH_2.9p2, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090602f
Any hints would be greatly appreciated.

I really don' t see what I am missing here. This is what I understand as
the most minimalistic version of your script. Maybe it is obvious here
where my problem lies:

#!/usr/bin/python

import os  
import sys
import pty

pid, fd = pty.fork()
if pid == 0:
  os.execv("/usr/bin/ssh localhost", [""])
  sys.exit()
else:
  #print os.fstat(fd)
  os.write(fd, '<passwd>\n')
  os.write(fd, 'top -n 0\n')

  print os.read(fd, 1024)

thanks In advance...

julian