Bindings for libssh C library.

Binary wheels are provided for Linux, OSX and Windows wheels to follow.

pip install ssh-python

Project is beta status.

• OpenSSL or gcrypt library and development headers
• Optionally Zlib library and development headers for compression

Libssh source code is embedded in this project and will be built when installation is triggered per above instructions. Versions of libssh other than the one embedded in this project are not supported.

from __future__ import print_function import os import pwd from ssh.session import Session from ssh import options # Linux only USERNAME = pwd.getpwuid(os.geteuid()).pw_name HOST = 'localhost' s = Session() s.options_set(options.HOST, HOST) s.connect() # Authenticate with agent s.userauth_agent(USERNAME) chan = s.channel_new() chan.open_session() chan.request_exec('echo me') size, data = chan.read() while size > 0: print(data.strip()) size, data = chan.read() chan.close()

Output:

me

The library uses Cython based native code extensions as wrappers to libssh.

• Thread safe - GIL released as much as possible
• Very low overhead thin wrapper
• Object oriented * Memory freed automatically and safely as objects are garbage collected by Python
• Uses Python semantics where applicable * channel/file handle context manager support * channel/file handle iterator support
• Raises low level C errors as Python exceptions