how to interact with Paramiko's interactive shell session?

Question

I have some Paramiko code where I use the invoke_shell method to request an interactive ssh shell session on a remote server. Method is outlined here: invoke_shell()

Answer 1

I imported a file, interactive.py, found on Paramiko's GitHub. After importing it, I just had to change my code to this:

try:
    import interactive
except ImportError:
    from . import interactive

...
...

channel.invoke_shell()
interactive.interactive_shell(channel)
sshClient.close()

Answer 2

You can try disabling echo after invoking the remote shell:

channel.invoke_shell()
channel.send("stty -echo\n")

while True:
    command = raw_input() # no need for `$ ' anymore
    ... ...