Re: [Pyssh-discuss] pyssh client

[Mark W. A. <sl...@do...>]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 03:19:01PM +0100, Niklas Saers wrote:
> Hi, I've tried following the docs for pyssh, but I cannot get a client 
> started. Both 0.3 and CVS install fssa, nbpipe and ptyext only when 
> doing python setup.py install, no pyssh. I cannot find a pyssh.py in the 
> distribution either. And when I do

Hi, I'm the new maintainer and .. What?! There's documentation?

Oh, there it is...

> import pyssh
> pyssh.run('date', host='HOSTNAME', user='USERNAME', password='PASSWORD')

Yup, that's what it says, but that's not the way it is :(

I'll add it to my todo list to bring it up-to-date.

> I get module has no attribute run. What I'd like to do is to test that 
> an ssh connection to a host can be made with passwordbased 
> authentication, for example by running "echo SUCCESS" on the client side.
> 
> If the documentation is out of date, how do I do this with the current 
> implementation? If the documentation is correct, what am I missing? 
> Where is pyssh.py?

pyssh.py went away when pyssh was restructured as a python package. It
didn't really go any where, it just got renamed to __init__.py and
pushed under the pyssh directory. When you "import pyssh", the
__init__.py is what actually gets loaded.

To your question, the way it works now is to instantiate an Ssh object:

import pyssh

session = pyssh.Ssh(username='me', host='remotehost')
session.login()
session.sendcmd("date")

If there's an ssh-agent running for user 'me' (which if omitted,
defaults to the executing user), pyssh will attempt to attach and use
that agent. If this happens, you will _not_ get the password prompt
you're expecting at login(), it will just work. Otherwise, it should do
as you suspect.

HTH!
mwa
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Mark W. Alexander
sl...@do...

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