Questions tagged [ssh]
Secure Shell - a network protocol for exchanging data throughout secure channel with most common uses of remote command execution (remote shell/console) and file transfer. Use this tag for programs and scripts using the SSH protocol, including the associated SCP and SFTP file-transfer mechanisms.
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Is it a correct way to read a file contents using paramiko (SSH, SFTP client)?
Is my implementation of _read_contents (3 lines) fine, or does it create a potential problem (e.g. passing part of an object that has to be destroyed, or a ...
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Tauri/Rust small program to upload files with use of threads and openssh
First time I'm using Rust in one of my programs and I feel a lot can be improved. I don't have any colleagues / friends that already used Rust so this is the only way to get some validation that it's ...
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Transfer data from a PLC on remote server into MQTT
Newbie here. I want to write a code that can open an SSH Tunnel for a remote server, then read out the data from a PLC and transfers it in JSON format via MQTT. This is my code, but I don't think this ...
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Python Local/Remote File Manager & RSync Terminal User Interface (TUI)
I have been working on a Python Curses terminal user interface for RSync for a little while now. I recently visited code review and recieved some help with cleaning up the code to make it more ...
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Python File Explorer / RSync Terminal User Interface
I've been working on my first python program for a few weeks now and I feel like the program is at a decent stage to begin sharing. The premise was to create a file explorer that eases the use of ...
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Bash script using SSH to sum disk usage on NetApp
I have tried to come with below bash script which is at least working for me, i know its not perfect and that why i want some review and suggestion to make it more aligned with bash practices. I'm ...
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Wrap an ssh2 connection neatly and pass commands
I want to structure this better but don't think I'm handling results well. I'm used to python and I think my flow is way off. Is this bad design?
Should my results be Result<String, Error>?
I'm ...
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Retrieve Logs from Multiple Containers on Remote Server
Recently I had the requirement to allow multiple containers of the same application to be run on a single development server. This requirement drastically changed how we retrieve logs over SSH from ...
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Bash script to mirror XWindow to remote SSH host
The source code within this question aims to provide a short-cut for mirroring a local XWindow (or session) to a remote host via SSH port forwarding, such as:
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Ruby - Sending commands to multiple servers using Net::SSH
The idea
At my work, I'm tasked with retrieving logs for a list of online orders from a total of 12 servers. To do this, I SSH into them (with a jump host in between) one by one, run the script for ...
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SSH Port Forwarding - golang
I developed this small code to make my life easier when I work with remote machines over ssh tunnel crossing a bastion host. I would like to publich it so others could benefit/learn from it.
So I ...
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ssh key install
I wrote script to install public key of my system to remote host.
I had tested the script it is working fine for me.
script take data like IP password and ssh port form CVS file.
I do not want to use ...
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Bash script to scp specific, most-recent files from remote server
I'm writing a helper script that I wish to be able to share with my co-workers. We all work using macOS Mojave, but all have their own shell configurations. For example, I actually use ZSH and bash 5....
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Polling an SFTP server to list files in a directory
When is it better to instantiate the sftp client globally vs inside a function as shown below? What considerations favor one method over the other?
For a long ...
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SSH autokiller for connections from other systems
I was messing around with ssh and decided to write a python program that scans for any connections that aren't from the system, then terminates them. It works well ...
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Syncing GitHub repositories local, remote and forks
It's a simple bash script but I'm hoping for feedback, advice and examples on how to improve the script and code. Can you guide me how to put more checks in the code and more if possible?
This code:
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Copy files from directory to SSH Server
The overall idea is: I have an Android phone and I would like to copy the files in a folder from the phone (which is running an SSH server, that's how I connect to it) to a harddrive connected to my ...
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Creating remote directories in a bash script via ssh (with error trapping)
I'd like to create directories on a remote VM, but only if they do not exist. What's more, if creating the directory results in an error (exit status != 0) I'd like the script to exit as well, or at ...
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Python rsync to copy the logs from multiple remote servers
I have the below code which i'm working to copy(using rsync) the contents From remote host labserver01 and dumps those into the directory ...
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Python functions to fetch spreadsheets through SFTP and from Dropbox [closed]
I have written two functions- first one is to read files from SFTP and second one is to read files from Dropbox.
Both functions have some similar line of code like validating extension and reading/...
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Sending an uptime to a remote server through SSH with the method pxssh
I have this code that I'm putting into a library script.
The aim of the code is the following:
The method is to connect to a remote server and run uptime on the ...
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Squire for your recursive SSH adventures
One day I used to SSH to lots of machines to do some administrative tasks. I constantly used l to list directories just like I do on my own machines. Guess what, ...
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SSH log in to multiple devices, save local config and transfer to backup server
I don't really know the best way to deal with long lines. The comments may be a little excessive. To me it seems like too much code for how "little" is actually done. I'm not that experienced and want ...
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throwcatch: Super easy, SFTP-based backup tool
I've been working on a project for fun, it has reached a place of pretty decent stability and I would like to hear any and all criticisms you can find.
The project basically enables admins to create ...
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BFA protected phpmyadmin
I use a Ubuntu 16.04 Nginx server environment with phpmyadmin (PMA). All my ports are closed besides 22, 25, 80, 443, 9000 (for PHP-FPM).
A common criticism of the good software (PMA) as of 2018, is ...
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Becoming a Perl bandit
I've posted a few questions about natas a wargame. But I'm stuck at natas29 it has to do with Perl. I've never coded in Perl before.
Thus to help me beat the last few levels, I decided it is time to ...
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Executing a command using Net::SSH
According to the local cop (rubocop), my method has too many lines.
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Remotely collect server data using Net::OpenSSH Perl
I am newbie in Perl programming and currently trying to use Net::OpenSSH module in my code, my new code as below which the task is to run multiple command in remote server,
Code as below::
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Python script to execute a command using Paramiko SSH
I wrote this to learn exactly how paramiko worked in Py3. Also to keep as a code snippet for future work-related scripts. I know it can be tweaked and I'm hoping you experienced folks can help with ...
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Running SSH commands on multiple servers
At the company I work at, we have no real way to quickly execute shell commands on all of our customers systems, which often results in what we call Tiny Tim tasks, ...
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Log Retrieval Script
I wrote a simple script to retrieve the logs from my website, and place them in a subdirectory called logs. It fetches the logs using sftp. I would like help with ...
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Fetching system info using python
The following piece of code does ssh do different servers and fetches the system info and display it to the user:
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Generating ssh keys from asp.net core
I have started to create a console app, which I am testing locally on my mac.
The idea is to generate an ssh key and structure the storage of these keys within the ...
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Basic automation of SSH tasks in a restricted environment
I'm trying to implement a simple automation solution in a restricted environment. I have actually implemented something but it took a bit longer than I wanted. I want to improve the solution and I'll ...
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SFTP Ruby script for downloading files from server
I have written this Ruby script to download some file from server using SFTP. Help me improve this one.
Find the original script at this link
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Concurrent SSH session pool
In my application I need to perform several SSH commands from Windows to a Linux machine.
Since I need to reduce as much as possible the SSH calls overhead and also limit the number of concurrent ...
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Send commands over SSH to server
Here's a very small and basic script that sends commands over SSH to another computer on my network:
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Moving WordPress database and files to new host
I've written a script in an attempt to try to automate moving hosts from old hosts to our new docker containers.
All feedback and input appreciated!
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Executing remote command using expect from C++
I wrote some code to execute remote commands over ssh, using expect, from c++. The code works but is a bit of a mess of c / c++ since there doesn't seem to be an idiomatic way to achieve much of what ...
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Restricted file upload to remote the Ruby way
I am using a Rails web app on the machine webapp, from which I call an action, that pushes a file to a remote server backend. ...
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Finding all non-empty directories and their files on an SFTP server with Paramiko
The purpose of the following function is to find all non-empty directories, and the files in those non-empty directories. It recursively checks each directory on an SFTP server to see if it has any ...
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SSH passing your Public key to all the users on remote host
I've grown tired of typing my password back and forth to all the hosts you connect to, i want to be able to jump to every single user on all the hosts with ease.
So i've made this script with a ...
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Ruby backup/restore for provisioning
This is my second Ruby coding attempt. Also - this is my first OOP usage in Ruby.
I'm using if __FILE__ == $0 form here - same as it is in Python because it's ...
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Ghostscript check, sends e-mail if one occurs
I've created a program that will search our work server where Ghostscripts occur. How it accomplishes this is by first sshing to the server specified, running a ...
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Systems management using SSH for my school
I wrote this script in order to generate a hosts.txt file with the IP addresses of the laptops in my school.
Each laptop is assigned a number, and their IP addresses are assigned to them with the ...
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Cancel those hung print jobs
I've created a program that will list all hung print jobs on a specified server, from there it will load them and strip the jobs down to their Job ID then cancel ...
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Logging the load balance
I created a load balancing server at work and have to keep track of which server it adds the user to, so I wrote a little Ruby script that will do just that.
I'm looking for any critique of my work, ...
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Java batch movie downloader
The idea is to batch download a list of movies (torrents) off a torrent site and add them to your server.
I have a little bit of Java experience (sophomore in college), so I'm looking for things that ...
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Are your servers down...?
If you came here because of the title, chances are your server isn't down. But if by some miraculous reason it is:
A while ago, I posted a program that would ssh and ping all the servers at work. I ...
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