How to make a ssh connection with python?
Notice that this doesn't work in Windows.
The module pxssh does exactly what you want:
For example, to run 'ls -l' and to print the output, you need to do something like that :
from pexpect import pxssh
s = pxssh.pxssh()
if not s.login ('localhost', 'myusername', 'mypassword'):
print "SSH session failed on login."
print str(s)
else:
print "SSH session login successful"
s.sendline ('ls -l')
s.prompt() # match the prompt
print s.before # print everything before the prompt.
s.logout()
Some links :
Pxssh docs : http://dsnra.jpl.nasa.gov/software/Python/site-packages/Contrib/pxssh.html
Pexpect (pxssh is based on pexpect) : http://pexpect.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
Twisted has SSH support : http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Python/SSH-with-Twisted/
The twisted.conch package adds SSH support to Twisted. This chapter shows how you can use the modules in twisted.conch to build SSH servers and clients.
Setting Up a Custom SSH Server
The command line is an incredibly efficient interface for certain tasks. System administrators love the ability to manage applications by typing commands without having to click through a graphical user interface. An SSH shell is even better, as it’s accessible from anywhere on the Internet.
You can use twisted.conch to create an SSH server that provides access to a custom shell with commands you define. This shell will even support some extra features like command history, so that you can scroll through the commands you’ve already typed.
How Do I Do That? Write a subclass of twisted.conch.recvline.HistoricRecvLine that implements your shell protocol. HistoricRecvLine is similar to twisted.protocols.basic.LineReceiver , but with higher-level features for controlling the terminal.
Write a subclass of twisted.conch.recvline.HistoricRecvLine that implements your shell protocol. HistoricRecvLine is similar to twisted.protocols.basic.LineReceiver, but with higher-level features for controlling the terminal.
To make your shell available through SSH, you need to implement a few different classes that twisted.conch needs to build an SSH server. First, you need the twisted.cred authentication classes: a portal, credentials checkers, and a realm that returns avatars. Use twisted.conch.avatar.ConchUser as the base class for your avatar. Your avatar class should also implement twisted.conch.interfaces.ISession , which includes an openShell method in which you create a Protocol to manage the user’s interactive session. Finally, create a twisted.conch.ssh.factory.SSHFactory object and set its portal attribute to an instance of your portal.
Example 10-1 demonstrates a custom SSH server that authenticates users by their username and password. It gives each user a shell that provides several commands.
Example 10-1. sshserver.py
from twisted.cred import portal, checkers, credentials
from twisted.conch import error, avatar, recvline, interfaces as conchinterfaces
from twisted.conch.ssh import factory, userauth, connection, keys, session, common from twisted.conch.insults import insults from twisted.application import service, internet
from zope.interface import implements
import os
class SSHDemoProtocol(recvline.HistoricRecvLine):
def __init__(self, user):
self.user = user
def connectionMade(self) :
recvline.HistoricRecvLine.connectionMade(self)
self.terminal.write("Welcome to my test SSH server.")
self.terminal.nextLine()
self.do_help()
self.showPrompt()
def showPrompt(self):
self.terminal.write("$ ")
def getCommandFunc(self, cmd):
return getattr(self, ‘do_’ + cmd, None)
def lineReceived(self, line):
line = line.strip()
if line:
cmdAndArgs = line.split()
cmd = cmdAndArgs[0]
args = cmdAndArgs[1:]
func = self.getCommandFunc(cmd)
if func:
try:
func(*args)
except Exception, e:
self.terminal.write("Error: %s" % e)
self.terminal.nextLine()
else:
self.terminal.write("No such command.")
self.terminal.nextLine()
self.showPrompt()
def do_help(self, cmd=”):
"Get help on a command. Usage: help command"
if cmd:
func = self.getCommandFunc(cmd)
if func:
self.terminal.write(func.__doc__)
self.terminal.nextLine()
return
publicMethods = filter(
lambda funcname: funcname.startswith(‘do_’), dir(self))
commands = [cmd.replace(‘do_’, ”, 1) for cmd in publicMethods]
self.terminal.write("Commands: " + " ".join(commands))
self.terminal.nextLine()
def do_echo(self, *args):
"Echo a string. Usage: echo my line of text"
self.terminal.write(" ".join(args))
self.terminal.nextLine()
def do_whoami(self):
"Prints your user name. Usage: whoami"
self.terminal.write(self.user.username)
self.terminal.nextLine()
def do_quit(self):
"Ends your session. Usage: quit"
self.terminal.write("Thanks for playing!")
self.terminal.nextLine()
self.terminal.loseConnection()
def do_clear(self):
"Clears the screen. Usage: clear"
self.terminal.reset()
class SSHDemoAvatar(avatar.ConchUser):
implements(conchinterfaces.ISession)
def __init__(self, username):
avatar.ConchUser.__init__(self)
self.username = username
self.channelLookup.update({‘session’:session.SSHSession})
def openShell(self, protocol):
serverProtocol = insults.ServerProtocol(SSHDemoProtocol, self)
serverProtocol.makeConnection(protocol)
protocol.makeConnection(session.wrapProtocol(serverProtocol))
def getPty(self, terminal, windowSize, attrs):
return None
def execCommand(self, protocol, cmd):
raise NotImplementedError
def closed(self):
pass
class SSHDemoRealm:
implements(portal.IRealm)
def requestAvatar(self, avatarId, mind, *interfaces):
if conchinterfaces.IConchUser in interfaces:
return interfaces[0], SSHDemoAvatar(avatarId), lambda: None
else:
raise Exception, "No supported interfaces found."
def getRSAKeys():
if not (os.path.exists(‘public.key’) and os.path.exists(‘private.key’)):
# generate a RSA keypair
print "Generating RSA keypair…"
from Crypto.PublicKey import RSA
KEY_LENGTH = 1024
rsaKey = RSA.generate(KEY_LENGTH, common.entropy.get_bytes)
publicKeyString = keys.makePublicKeyString(rsaKey)
privateKeyString = keys.makePrivateKeyString(rsaKey)
# save keys for next time
file(‘public.key’, ‘w+b’).write(publicKeyString)
file(‘private.key’, ‘w+b’).write(privateKeyString)
print "done."
else:
publicKeyString = file(‘public.key’).read()
privateKeyString = file(‘private.key’).read()
return publicKeyString, privateKeyString
if __name__ == "__main__":
sshFactory = factory.SSHFactory()
sshFactory.portal = portal.Portal(SSHDemoRealm())
users = {‘admin’: ‘aaa’, ‘guest’: ‘bbb’}
sshFactory.portal.registerChecker(
checkers.InMemoryUsernamePasswordDatabaseDontUse(**users))
pubKeyString, privKeyString =
getRSAKeys()
sshFactory.publicKeys = {
‘ssh-rsa’: keys.getPublicKeyString(data=pubKeyString)}
sshFactory.privateKeys = {
‘ssh-rsa’: keys.getPrivateKeyObject(data=privKeyString)}
from twisted.internet import reactor
reactor.listenTCP(2222, sshFactory)
reactor.run()
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sshserver.py will run an SSH server on port 2222. Connect to this server with an SSH client using the username admin and password aaa, and try typing some commands:
$ ssh admin@localhost -p 2222
admin@localhost’s password: aaa
>>> Welcome to my test SSH server.
Commands: clear echo help quit whoami
$ whoami
admin
$ help echo
Echo a string. Usage: echo my line of text
$ echo hello SSH world!
hello SSH world!
$ quit
Connection to localhost closed.
You can easily make SSH connections using SSHLibrary. Read this post :
https://workpython.blogspot.com/2020/04/creating-ssh-connections-with-python.html