Running Sudo Command with paramiko

Question

I am trying to execute a sudo command on a remote machine using python-paramiko, when I execute the command, I bind it with 3 streams, and I use the input stream to pass the

Answer 1

I know this question is kind of old but I was wanting to use sudo and paramiko together, too. It took me a while to figure out this solution. It may not work for everyone but I figured it was worth adding.

def ssh_handler(hostname, username=USER, password=PASS, command=CMD): 
    ssh = paramiko.SSHClient()
    ssh.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())
    ssh.connect(hostname,
                username=username,
                password=password) 

    stdin, stdout, stderr = ssh.exec_command(prepare_command(command))
    # stdin.write(password+'\n')  

    response = stdout.read()   
    ssh.close()
    print response


def prepare_command(command):  
    if (not isinstance(command, basestring)): 
        command = ' ; '.join(command)  
    command = command.replace('"','\"') 
    command = 'sudo -s -- " '+command+' " \n'
    return command


# kind of a dumb example but you get the point 
mycmd = []; 
mycmd.append('cd /dir/this/user/doesnt/have/access/to')
mycmd.append('ls -las')
mycmd.append('cat file_in_dir.txt')

ssh_handler(server, command=mycmd)