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Linux and UNIX How To: Scripting SSH and SFTP |
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Source: Enterpriseitplanet - Posted by Bill Keys
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SSH is an indispensable tool that I use every day for file transfers, remote execution of tasks, setting up network port redirection between systems (tunneling), and securely driving a shell on a remote system. While the SSH commandline client on UNIX and Linux systems is how I interact most often with SSH servers on the remote end, there are times when it is helpful to script some action or series of actions rather than performing them interactively.
This is where Python and paramiko come in. paramiko is a library for Python that provides a programmatic interface to SSH. This combination of Python and SSH allows you to drive SSH tasks you would normally perform manually.
Do you use SSH or SFTP to make secure connections to your remote hosts? Do you want to automate this process? This article shows you a handy programming library call paramiko to help developing scripts that uses SSH or SFTP.
Read this full article at Enterpriseitplanet
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