>>>>> "edadk" == edadk <e.d.andersen at mosek.com> writes: edadk> I would like to write script that using ssh automatically edadk> execute commands commands on a remote machine. How can I do edadk> that? For simple stuff, you have at your disposal, for example: import os h = os.popen('ssh -2 somehost.com ls') print h.read() John Hunter