Using pxssh

[tereglow]

Hello,

I am trying to convert some Expect/Tcl code into Python by using the
Pexpect module. The environment is such that authenticated keys are
disabled although SSH is available. I do not have control over this
environment, so I'm trying to automate tasks within it via Expect.

I noticed that, within the Pexpect documentation, it mentions a class
called "pxssh". Has anyone used this before? If so, I'm having some
trouble importing it. If I just import pxssh doesn't seem to work;
really am not sure how this is related to Pexpect or how to use it
from within it.

Any help is appreciated.
Tom

[Nick Craig-Wood]

tereglow <to************@eglow.netwrote:

I am trying to convert some Expect/Tcl code into Python by using the
Pexpect module. The environment is such that authenticated keys are
disabled although SSH is available. I do not have control over this
environment, so I'm trying to automate tasks within it via Expect.

I noticed that, within the Pexpect documentation, it mentions a class
called "pxssh". Has anyone used this before? If so, I'm having some
trouble importing it. If I just import pxssh doesn't seem to work;

In what way doesn't it work?

really am not sure how this is related to Pexpect or how to use it
from within it.

It works for me according to the documentation

$ python
Python 2.4.4 (#2, Jan 13 2007, 17:50:26)
[GCC 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

>>import pxssh
s = pxssh.pxssh()
s.login("localhost", "user", "password")

True

>>s.sendline("ls -l")

6

>>s.prompt()

True

>>print s.before

ls -l
total 30944
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 936 Nov 3 14:52 #z.c#
[snip]
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 221 Jan 30 11:51 z~

>>s.logout()

I'm using the debian packaged version 2.1-1 with python 2.4

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