I need to quote part of the rsync line that subprocess.run uses that contains the ssh parameters, unfortunately nothing I have tried has worked so far.
Can someone please advise me on the correct way to quote the ssh parameters, so that it will run under rsync.
At first I had a list of lists that got passed to subprocess.run, that fails with:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./tmp.py", line 20, in <module>
process = subprocess.run(rsync_cmd, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 423, in run
with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as process:
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 729, in __init__
restore_signals, start_new_session)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 1295, in _execute_child
restore_signals, start_new_session, preexec_fn)
TypeError: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not list
Flatten it to an ordinary list:
Unexpected remote arg: example.com:/var/log/maillog
rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(1361) [sender=3.1.2]
Which makes sense, as part of the command line for rsync needs to be quoted.
So I try to quote it:
rsync: Failed to exec /usr/bin/ssh -F /home/rspencer/.ssh/config -o PreferredAuthentications=publickey -o StrictHostKeyChecking=accept-new -o TCPKeepAlive=yes -o ServerAliveInterval=5 -o ServerAliveCountMax=24 -o ConnectTimeout=30 -o ExitOnForwardFailure=yes -o ControlMaster=autoask -o ControlPath=/run/user/1000/foo-ssh-master-%C -l root -p 234 -o Compression=yes: No such file or directory (2)
rsync error: error in IPC code (code 14) at pipe.c(85) [Receiver=3.1.2]
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver]
rsync error: error in IPC code (code 14) at io.c(235) [Receiver=3.1.2]
Which is due, I expect, to it being a string instead of a list. Although I'm guessing and that does not make complete sense to me.
Summarized code of my last attempt:
#!/usr/bin/python3
import subprocess
ssh_args = [
"-F",
"/home/rspencer/.ssh/config",
"-o",
"PreferredAuthentications=publickey",
"-o",
"StrictHostKeyChecking=accept-new",
"-o",
"TCPKeepAlive=yes",
"-o",
"ServerAliveInterval=5",
"-o",
"ServerAliveCountMax=24",
"-o",
"ConnectTimeout=30",
"-o",
"ExitOnForwardFailure=yes",
"-o",
"ControlMaster=autoask",
"-o",
"ControlPath=/run/user/1000/foo-ssh-master-%C",
"-l",
"root",
"-p",
"234",
]
rsync_params = []
src = "example.com:/var/log/maillog"
dest = "."
# Build SSH command
ssh_cmd = ["/usr/bin/ssh"] + ssh_args
# Use basic compression
ssh_cmd.extend(["-o", "Compression=yes"])
ssh_cmd = " ".join(ssh_cmd)
ssh_cmd = f'"{ssh_cmd}"'
# Build rsync command
rsync_cmd = ["/usr/bin/rsync", "-vP", "-e", ssh_cmd] + rsync_params + [src, dest]
# Run rsync
process = subprocess.run(rsync_cmd, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
if process.returncode != 0:
print(process.stderr.decode("UTF-8").strip())
What the correct command would look like on the command line:
/usr/bin/rsync -vP -e "/usr/bin/ssh -F /home/rspencer/.ssh/config -o \
PreferredAuthentications=publickey -o StrictHostKeyChecking=accept-new -o \
TCPKeepAlive=yes -o ServerAliveInterval=5 -o ServerAliveCountMax=24 -o \
ConnectTimeout=30 -o ExitOnForwardFailure=yes -o ControlMaster=autoask \
-o ControlPath=/run/user/1000/foo-ssh-master-%C -l root -p 234 -o \
Compression=yes" example.com:/var/log/maillog .