Mastering Python Scripting for System Administrators

Handling passwords at runtime in scripts

In this section, we will look at a simple example for handling passwords in script. We will create a script called handling_password.py and write the following content in it:

import sysimport paramikoimport timeip_address = "192.168.2.106"username = "student"password = "training"ssh_client = paramiko.SSHClient()ssh_client.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())ssh_client.load_system_host_keys()ssh_client.connect(hostname=ip_address,\                                    username=username, password=password)print ("Successful connection", ip_address)ssh_client.invoke_shell()remote_connection = ssh_client.exec_command('cd Desktop; mkdir work\n')remote_connection = ssh_client.exec_command('mkdir test_folder\n')#print( remote_connection.read() ...