Re: supplying password to subprocess.call('rsync ...'), os.system('rsync ...')
On Oct 7, 1:01 pm, Michael Torrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: timw.google wrote: Hi I want to write a python script that runs rsync on a given directory and host. I build the command line string, but when I try to run subprocess.call(cmd), or p=subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True),or os.system(cmd), I get prompted for my login password. I expected this, but when I try to give my password, it's echoed back to the terminal and the special characters in the password is (I think) getting interpreted by the shell (zsh) I can't ssh w/o supplying a password. That's the way the security is set up here. How do I use python to do this, or do I just have to write a zsh script? You need to use the pexpect module. Thanks. Thanks to all the suggestions on getting this to work w/ python. I'll look into this more when I get the chance. I don't have root access, so setting up some kind of server is out. I may not be able to try the other suggestions either, as they have things locked down pretty tight around here. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: supplying password to subprocess.call('rsync ...'), os.system('rsync ...')
On 10/5/07, timw.google [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I want to write a python script that runs rsync on a given directory and host. I build the command line string, but when I try to run subprocess.call(cmd), or p=subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True),or os.system(cmd), I get prompted for my login password. I expected this, but when I try to give my password, it's echoed back to the terminal and the special characters in the password is (I think) getting interpreted by the shell (zsh) I can't ssh w/o supplying a password. That's the way the security is set up here. How do I use python to do this, or do I just have to write a zsh script? SSH takes measures to ensure that passwords are typed from a keyboard (pty) rather than being piped in automatically (stdin). If SSH public key authentication (see ssh-keygen) doesn't work for you, then try ssh agent (see, ssh-add), sshpass, or something like empty-expect. If you use ssh public keys, you can also setup the public key so that only a specified command can be run, and that the public key can only be used from a specific host. This is more secure. See this page for more info: http://troy.jdmz.net/rsync/index.html Otherwise you may need to do some pty-hackery in python to fool ssh into thinking it's password is being entered from a keyboard and not a script. However, you should try public key authentication (with rsync as the only allowed command) first. Another method is to setup an ssh service on the server (perhaps in inetd). One disadvantage of this is that the rsync session (including rsync login passwords) is not encrypted. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: supplying password to subprocess.call('rsync ...'), os.system('rsync ...')
Typo. Another method is to setup an ssh service on the server (perhaps in Should be: Another method is to setup an rsync service on the server (perhaps in -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: supplying password to subprocess.call('rsync ...'), os.system('rsync ...')
timw.google wrote: Hi I want to write a python script that runs rsync on a given directory and host. I build the command line string, but when I try to run subprocess.call(cmd), or p=subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True),or os.system(cmd), I get prompted for my login password. I expected this, but when I try to give my password, it's echoed back to the terminal and the special characters in the password is (I think) getting interpreted by the shell (zsh) I can't ssh w/o supplying a password. That's the way the security is set up here. How do I use python to do this, or do I just have to write a zsh script? You need to use the pexpect module. Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: supplying password to subprocess.call('rsync ...'), os.system('rsync ...')
On 05 Oct 2007 16:23:50 GMT, Stargaming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:37:05 -0700, timw.google wrote: I can't ssh w/o supplying a password. That's the way the security is set up here. How do I use python to do this, or do I just have to write a zsh script? Thanks. I wrote a zsh script to do what I wanted, but I'd still like to know how to do it in Python. `subprocess.Popen` has a keyword argument called `stdin` -- what takes the password, I guess. Assigning `subprocess.PIPE` to it and using `Popen.communicate` should do the trick. SSH doesn't read passwords off of stdin. If you want to supply a password to SSH, then you need to control a pty directly. -- Nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: supplying password to subprocess.call('rsync ...'), os.system('rsync ...')
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], timw.google wrote: I want to write a python script that runs rsync on a given directory and host. I build the command line string, but when I try to run subprocess.call(cmd), or p=subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True),or os.system(cmd), I get prompted for my login password. Why not set up a public/private SSH key pair between the accounts on the two machines? Then you can get in without a password. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
supplying password to subprocess.call('rsync ...'), os.system('rsync ...')
Hi I want to write a python script that runs rsync on a given directory and host. I build the command line string, but when I try to run subprocess.call(cmd), or p=subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True),or os.system(cmd), I get prompted for my login password. I expected this, but when I try to give my password, it's echoed back to the terminal and the special characters in the password is (I think) getting interpreted by the shell (zsh) I can't ssh w/o supplying a password. That's the way the security is set up here. How do I use python to do this, or do I just have to write a zsh script? Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: supplying password to subprocess.call('rsync ...'), os.system('rsync ...')
On Oct 5, 10:33 am, timw.google [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I want to write a python script that runs rsync on a given directory and host. I build the command line string, but when I try to run subprocess.call(cmd), or p=subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True),or os.system(cmd), I get prompted for my login password. I expected this, but when I try to give my password, it's echoed back to the terminal and the special characters in the password is (I think) getting interpreted by the shell (zsh) I can't ssh w/o supplying a password. That's the way the security is set up here. How do I use python to do this, or do I just have to write a zsh script? Thanks. I wrote a zsh script to do what I wanted, but I'd still like to know how to do it in Python. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: supplying password to subprocess.call('rsync ...'), os.system('rsync ...')
On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:37:05 -0700, timw.google wrote: On Oct 5, 10:33 am, timw.google [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I want to write a python script that runs rsync on a given directory and host. I build the command line string, but when I try to run subprocess.call(cmd), or p=subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True),or os.system(cmd), I get prompted for my login password. I expected this, but when I try to give my password, it's echoed back to the terminal and the special characters in the password is (I think) getting interpreted by the shell (zsh) I can't ssh w/o supplying a password. That's the way the security is set up here. How do I use python to do this, or do I just have to write a zsh script? Thanks. I wrote a zsh script to do what I wanted, but I'd still like to know how to do it in Python. `subprocess.Popen` has a keyword argument called `stdin` -- what takes the password, I guess. Assigning `subprocess.PIPE` to it and using `Popen.communicate` should do the trick. Check the documentation at http://docs.python.org/lib/module- subprocess.html for details. Cheers, Stargaming -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
