[BangPypers] Help On Paramiko

[Noufal Ibrahim]

Fabric is a library built on paramiko that gives you abstractions so
that you don't have to worry about things at such a fine grained
level. Perhaps you should try using that.

<Nikunj.Badjatya at emc.com> writes:

> Howdy All,
>
> I am trying to use paramiko to automate logging in to remote unix machines and executing some commands there.
> When I normally do ssh from my linux machine (with Python 2.6) to this machine a different '>' prompt comes. It's a device specific custom prompt.
> After I run 'enable' command here, a new prompt opens up. '#' which is also custom prompt.
> Then I need to run 'configure terminal' there. And then some more device specific commands.
>
> i.e.
> {{{
> Linux # Ssh admin at xx.xx.xx.xx<mailto:admin at xx.xx.xx.xx>
>
> Ø  Enable
> #     configure terminal
> #     <more commands>
> }}}
>
> Can this be done using paramiko?
> I tried with:
>
> {{{
> import paramiko
>
> client = paramiko.SSHClient()
> client.load_system_host_keys()
> client.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())
> client.connect('xx.xx.xx.xx', username='admin', password='')
> stdin, stdout, stderr = client.exec_command('enable')
> #stdin.write('configure t')
> print(stdout.readlines())
>
> }}}
> (There is no passwd for username admin.)
>
>
> o/p
> ['UNIX shell commands cannot be executed using this account.\n']
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks
> Nikunj
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Noufal
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