how to get past keyboard authentication with paramiko

Question

I am trying to use Paramiko to connect to a remote host via ssh however I get an error message which states that keyboard authentication is required to access the host. Is there any way I can get around this using Paramiko? If not, is there another ssh module I can use? I'll even use another language if I have to. The only thing I can't do is change the settings on the host. Also, I am writing this application on a Windows host so pxssh is not an option. Any suggestions?

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 11 '11 at 19:55

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You could get username and password from whatever resource you have and use it when calling connect. For example you could save them in a config file.

answered Sep 11 '11 at 19:55

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score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 28 '11 at 08:57

Either pass the private key directly using pkey= or pass in the name of the file with key_filename= when calling connect() like so:

client = SSHClient()
client.connect('remotehost', key_filename='/path/to/private_key')

or

private_key = """
-----BEGIN EC PRIVATE KEY-----
MHcCAQEEIMhTkzF8pZ5gtXvAafjNRsKXWXnhjslUW194WteddA3YoAoGCCqGSM49
AwEHoUQDQgAEkb0qngPKOKVcjqszHg+7Y95TLvWZb5qtHb4ZmuLJRYIMzx78C9gp
sb3jBuW2VCaoO8SfyXUKeOzT7eJTH6j8GQ==
-----END EC PRIVATE KEY-----
""""
client = SSHClient()
client.connect('remotehost', pkey=private_key)

how to get past keyboard authentication with paramiko

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