Using Python to run SSH commands on a remote server

[Mark Wooding]

John Salerno <johnjsal at NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:

> Generally speaking, what tools would I use to do this? Is there a built-in 
> module for it? 

There's paramiko (q.g.).  I can't personally vouch for it, but it seems
popular...  It seems to depend on a separate crypto library.

> Is Telnet and SSH even the same thing?

No.  They're very different.

-- [mdw]