I am using paramiko to do an SFTP file transfer... I was able to connect to the remote server using an SFTP client I have just to make sure that username and password are working.. But when i try to connect using this script it fails ....
**hostname, username and password are declared. # now, connect and use paramiko Transport to negotiate SSH2 across the connection sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) sock.connect((hostname, port)) t = paramiko.Transport(sock) event = threading.Event() t.start_client(event) event.wait(15) if not t.is_active(): print 'SSH negotiation failed.' sys.exit(1) else: print "SSH negotiation sucessful" event.clear() t.auth_password(username=username, password=password,event=event) if not t.is_authenticated(): print "not authenticated" output: SSH negotiation successful not authenticated -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list