Matheus Bratfisch

Sep 02 2009

Connect to SSH using Python

Good Night,

If you want to execute commands in console using python you can use the pexpect library. You can get it in http://sourceforge.net/projects/pexpect/. To install it use:

$ sudo python setup.py install

After install it, you can have fun. I did a small script to test it.

import pexpect
class SSH():

def connect(self):

x = True

sshConnection = pexpect.spawn(‘ssh -l matheus -p 22 192.168.0.254′)

sshConnection.expect(‘matheus@192.168.0.254\’s password:’)

sshConnection.sendline(‘password’)

while True:

print sshConnection.readline();

if x is True:

sshConnection.sendline(‘uptime’)

x = False

sshConnection.readline();
s = SSH()

s.connect()