The pysftp has some bugs regarding host key handling, as described below. It also seems that the pysftp project was abandoned. Consider using Paramiko directly instead. The pysftp is just a wrapper on top of Paramiko and it does not add anything really significant. See pysftp vs. Paramiko. For handling of host keys in Paramiko, … Read more
The problem is that do_work.sh runs ssh commands and by default ssh reads from stdin which is your input file. As a result, you only see the first line processed, because the command consumes the rest of the file and your while loop terminates. This happens not just for ssh, but for any command that … Read more
If Machine A is a Windows box, you can use Plink (part of PuTTY) with the -m parameter, and it will execute the local script on the remote server. plink root@MachineB -m local_script.sh If Machine A is a Unix-based system, you can use: ssh root@MachineB ‘bash -s’ < local_script.sh You shouldn’t have to copy the … Read more
Adding to tripleee‘s answer: It is important to remember that the section of the script formatted as a here-document for another shell is executed in a different shell with its own environment (and maybe even on a different machine). If that block of your script contains parameter expansion, command substitution, and/or arithmetic expansion, then you … Read more
Could not open a connection to your authentication agent
ssh “permissions are too open” error
scp -r [email protected]:/path/to/foo /home/user/Desktop/ By not including the trailing “https://stackoverflow.com/” at the end of foo, you will copy the directory itself (including contents), rather than only the contents of the directory. From man scp (See online manual) -r Recursively copy entire directories