Paramiko SSH & SCP Tutorial

Source code for the accompanying tutorial found here: https://hackersandslackers.com/ssh-scp-in-python-with-paramiko/

Getting Started

Installation

$ git clone https://github.com/hackersandslackers/paramiko-tutorial.git
$ cd paramiko-tutorial
$ make install
$ make run

Configuration

Replace the values in .env.example with your values and rename this file to .env:

• ENVIRONMENT: Contextual environment the script is being on.
• SSH_REMOTE_HOST: IP address (or URL) of remote host to SSH into.
• SSH_USERNAME: Username for connecting to remote host.
• SSH_PASSWORD (optional): Password of user SSHing into remote host via basic auth.
• SSH_KEY_FILEPATH: /path/to/local/sshkey
• SCP_DESTINATION_FOLDER (optional): Remote directory to serve as destination for file uploads.

Remember to never commit secrets saved in .env files to Github.

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