Paramiko : Error reading SSH protocol banner

Question

Recently, I made a code that connect to work station with different usernames (thanks to a private key) based on paramiko.

I never had any issues with it, but today,

Answer 1

Adding to the answers above, suggesting to edit transport.py: you don't have to do that anymore.

Since Paramiko v. 1.15.0, released in 2015, (this PR, to be precise) you can configure that value when creating Paramiko connection, like this:

client = SSHClient()
client.connect('ssh.example.com', banner_timeout=200)

In the current version of Paramiko as of writing these words, v. 2.7.1, you have 2 more timeouts that you can configure when calling connect method, for these 3 in total (source):

• banner_timeout - an optional timeout (in seconds) to wait for the SSH banner to be presented.
• timeout - an optional timeout (in seconds) for the TCP connect
• auth_timeout - an optional timeout (in seconds) to wait for an authentication response.