Paramiko SFTP autologon using id_dsa.pub

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> I wrote a lil module using paramiko's module to send a file via
> sftp.. it works great using the username and password.
> I would prefer to use id_dsa.pub to have an autologon and not save
> the
> password anywhere on the disk.. I cant find a good example of this.
> Can anyone help ?

When you have an ssh-agent running that has the key loaded, paramiko
will automatically use that. If you don't have an ssh-agent running,
you have to pass either the pkey or the key_filename argument; the
former should be a PKey object (either RSAKey or DSSKey).

Regards,
Martin