[execnet-dev] Urgent question about ssh with username/password

[Prasanna Mulgaonkar]

Thanks Ronny. That worked like a charm.

Your help much appreciated.

--prasanna


On 03/01/2018 12:23 PM, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
> im sorry, the links got broken appart into 2 parts by my mail app
> it should work if you paste them together
>
> it was made on current master, so just going for the gateway_io file
> should be sufficient tho
>
> -- Ronny
>
> Am Donnerstag, den 01.03.2018, 12:21 -0800 schrieb Prasanna Mulgaonkar:
>> Hmm. I get a 404 page not found when I click on both those links. But
>> I
>> can look for those lines in the github repo I can get to for execnet.
>>
>>
>> On 03/01/2018 12:15 PM, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> https://github.com/pytest-dev/execnet/blob/3ea8374724f436a3a73ffc2e
>>> 481d
>>> c2a66b208a97/execnet/gateway_io.py#L92-L104 generates the command
>>>
>>> https://github.com/pytest-dev/execnet/blob/3ea8374724f436a3a73ffc2e
>>> 481d
>>> c2a66b208a97/execnet/gateway_io.py#L123-L136 puts it together with
>>> initializing the server
>>>
>>> -- Ronny
>>>
>>> Am Donnerstag, den 01.03.2018, 10:19 -0800 schrieb Prasanna
>>> Mulgaonkar:
>>>> Ronnie, thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Somewhere in the guts of the execnet code, you must be issuing
>>>> the
>>>> actual ssh command, right? I looked (albeit in a cursory manner)
>>>> for
>>>> that location, to see if I could create a local modification that
>>>> would
>>>> call sshpass instead of ssh directly. Could you point me to where
>>>> that
>>>> call is made in the code?
>>>>
>>>> --prasanna
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 03/01/2018 09:10 AM, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
>>>>> Hi Prasanna,
>>>>> i am sorry for the confusion,
>>>>> i missremembered, ssh has indeed no feature to enter the
>>>>> password
>>>>> that
>>>>> way,
>>>>> execnet also has no feature to enter the password as well
>>>>>
>>>>> so as things are you are in a blind spot
>>>>>
>>>>> -- Ronny
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Am Donnerstag, den 22.02.2018, 10:21 -0800 schrieb Prasanna
>>>>> Mulgaonkar:
>>>>>> Ronny, thanks for  your input. I don't understand what you
>>>>>> mean
>>>>>> by
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> option //ssh_config=a_file_that_sets_the_password.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there any documentation on the syntax of that file? For
>>>>>> example,
>>>>>> if
>>>>>> the username is test and password is test (for the sake of
>>>>>> argument),
>>>>>>
>>>>>> in execnet.makegateway I would provide parameters
>>>>>> "ssh=test at ip//ssh_config=some_file"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How do I specify the password itself in the some_file?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Everywhere we use execnet, we use it with an identity file
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> key-pairs. But in one installation there is something in the
>>>>>> environment
>>>>>> that is preventing key based ssh from working and we are
>>>>>> trying
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> debug
>>>>>> this. Even a direct ssh command with keys is being rejected
>>>>>> in
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> environment though password based ssh works.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --prasanna
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 02/21/2018 11:14 PM, RonnyPfannschmidt wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi prasann,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> the common solution is to use a ssh configfile using
>>>>>>> "ssh=...//ssh_config=a_file_that_sets_the_password"
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> in general its strongly suggested to set up a identity file
>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>> use
>>>>>>> that,
>>>>>>> ssh itself has tools to copy the identity files to the host
>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>> even
>>>>>>> limit the commands it can use
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -- Ronny
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Am 21.02.2018 um 23:26 schrieb Prasanna Mulgaonkar:
>>>>>>>> I know that this is not a recommended approach, but in
>>>>>>>> one
>>>>>>>> particular
>>>>>>>> customer we are working with, only username/password
>>>>>>>> based
>>>>>>>> ssh
>>>>>>>> logins
>>>>>>>> are permitted. How do I open an execnet gateway and pass
>>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>>> password to
>>>>>>>> the ssh call?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> For example make_gateway("ssh=testuser at ipaddress")
>>>>>>>> prompts on
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> python console if I run this in an interactive python
>>>>>>>> shell.
>>>>>>>> I
>>>>>>>> want to
>>>>>>>> run it non interactively. How do I specify the password.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Replacing ssh= with sshpass= does not work.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --prasanna
>>>>>>>>
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