In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> So basically, instead of typing in on the command line argument I want >> to have it in a python program and let it do the action. > > Try exec() and execfile() from the standard library (IIRC)
Ths os.spawn...() functions are likely to be better suited to what he wants to do. >> ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] .....etc > > When you connect (via ssh or telnet) to a remote machine, you need to > type (manually) your username and your password. Programming that is > never easy. Indeed, so it is much easier to use public-key authentication with an unencrypted private key, that way you don't have to type any passwords. See the "AUTHORIZED_KEYS FILE FORMAT" section of the 'sshd' man page, and the 'ssh-keygen' command. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list