SSH and Windows

Alan Kennedy alanmk at hotmail.com
Fri Jul 25 04:28:13 EDT 2003


Isaac Raway wrote:

> Hello. I'm writing a Python program that connects to servers through
> telnetlib to execute a few commands. I've discovered that some of the
> servers that I have to connect to with this program run only SSH, so I
> need to add support for SSH to the program. I'm looking for a library
> that behaves similarly to telnetlib for SSH connections. Does anyone
> know of one? I was going to try using pexpect to control the Windows
> telnet command, but pexpect only works on Unix.
> 
> Any help is appreciated.

Perhaps you might be able to use stunnel, which is a encrypting proxy
that will secure any socket connection, does not require code changes
in client or server code, and is quite straightforward to use.

http://www.stunnel.org/

HTH,

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