First, I install and check the version of this package.
[mythcat@desk my_network_tools]$ pip3 install paramiko --user
Collecting paramiko
...
Running setup.py install for pycparser ... done
Successfully installed asn1crypto-0.24.0 bcrypt-3.1.7 cffi-1.12.3 cryptography-2.7 paramiko-2.6.0 pycparser-2.19 pynacl-1.3.0
[mythcat@desk my_network_tools]$ python3
Python 3.7.4 (default, Jul 9 2019, 16:32:37)
[GCC 9.1.1 20190503 (Red Hat 9.1.1-1)] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import paramiko
>>> dir(paramiko)
['AUTH_FAILED', 'AUTH_PARTIALLY_SUCCESSFUL', 'AUTH_SUCCESSFUL', 'Agent', 'AgentKey', 'AuthHandler', 'AuthenticationException', 'AutoAddPolicy', 'BadAuthenticationType', 'BadHostKeyException', 'BaseSFTP', 'BufferedFile', 'Channel', 'ChannelException', 'ChannelFile', 'ChannelStderrFile', 'ChannelStdinFile', 'DSSKey', 'ECDSAKey', 'Ed25519Key', 'GSSAuth', 'GSS_AUTH_AVAILABLE', 'GSS_EXCEPTIONS', 'HostKeys', 'InteractiveQuery', 'Message', 'MissingHostKeyPolicy', 'OPEN_FAILED_ADMINISTRATIVELY_PROHIBITED', 'OPEN_FAILED_CONNECT_FAILED', 'OPEN_FAILED_RESOURCE_SHORTAGE', 'OPEN_FAILED_UNKNOWN_CHANNEL_TYPE', 'OPEN_SUCCEEDED', 'PKey', 'Packetizer', 'PasswordRequiredException', 'ProxyCommand', 'ProxyCommandFailure', 'PublicBlob', 'RSAKey', 'RejectPolicy', 'SFTP', 'SFTPAttributes', 'SFTPClient', 'SFTPError', 'SFTPFile', 'SFTPHandle', 'SFTPServer', 'SFTPServerInterface', 'SFTP_BAD_MESSAGE', 'SFTP_CONNECTION_LOST', 'SFTP_EOF', 'SFTP_FAILURE', 'SFTP_NO_CONNECTION', 'SFTP_NO_SUCH_FILE', 'SFTP_OK', 'SFTP_OP_UNSUPPORTED', 'SFTP_PERMISSION_DENIED', 'SSHClient', 'SSHConfig', 'SSHException', 'SecurityOptions', 'ServerInterface', 'SubsystemHandler', 'Transport', 'WarningPolicy', '__all__', '__author__', '__builtins__', '__cached__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__license__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '__path__', '__spec__', '__version__', '__version_info__', '_version', 'agent', 'auth_handler', 'ber', 'buffered_pipe', 'channel', 'client', 'common', 'compress', 'config', 'dsskey', 'ecdsakey', 'ed25519key', 'file', 'hostkeys', 'io_sleep', 'kex_curve25519', 'kex_ecdh_nist', 'kex_gex', 'kex_group1', 'kex_group14', 'kex_group16', 'kex_gss', 'message', 'packet', 'pipe', 'pkey', 'primes', 'proxy', 'py3compat', 'rsakey', 'server', 'sftp', 'sftp_attr', 'sftp_client', 'sftp_file', 'sftp_handle', 'sftp_server', 'sftp_si', 'ssh_exception', 'ssh_gss', 'sys', 'transport', 'util']
>>> paramiko.__version__
'2.6.0'A simple example with this python package and ssh connection to 192.168.0.143 on port 22 can be see on the next source code
#!/usr/bin/env python
"""Return the ssh output with password connection and Linux commands"""
import paramiko
client = paramiko.SSHClient()
client.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())
conn= client.connect('192.168.0.143', port='22', username='mythcat', password='the_pass')
# Obtain session
session = client.get_transport().open_session()
print("| Retcode: "+str(session)+"|")
stdin, stdout, stderr=client.exec_command('sudo hostname;w')
save_stdout = stdout.readlines()
retcode = stdout.channel.recv_exit_status()
stdin, stdout, stderr=client.exec_command('ss -nap;')
save_stdout2 = stdout.readlines()
print(save_stdout,save_stdout2)
#for line in stdout:
# print (line)