Timeout in paramiko (python)

Question

I\'m looking for a way to set a timeout for this:

transport = paramiko.Transport((host, port))
transport.connect(username = username, password = password)
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Answer 1

The connection timeout can be set with the timeout parameter (that indicated the number of seconds for the time out as described here) of the connect function.

ssh = paramiko.SSHClient()
ssh.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())
ssh.connect(host, username=username, password=password, timeout=10)
sftp = ssh.open_sftp()
sftp.get(remotepath, localpath)
sftp.close()