Paramiko SSH set environment variable using python

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I am using Paramiko to send an ssh command to a remote Windows Server, which works, BUT I need to set an environment variable first which sets a password for the main command to use. So on the Windows Server command line I use:

$ set ASPERA_SCP_PASS=passwordToUse
$ ascp -d --src-base=//DirectoryToSend //DirectoryToSend [email protected]:/

This sets an environment variable passwordToUse which gets used in the ascp command. But I can't get this working with Paramiko. When running the below script I get exit status: 0, but the command does not run on the remote server.

import sys
import paramiko

nbytes = 4096
hostname = '10.0.0.1'
port = 22
username = 'remoteUsername' 
password = 'remotePassword'
command1 = 'set ASPERA_SCP_PASS={}'.format('passwordToUse')
command2 = 'ascp -d --src-base=//DirectoryToSend //DirectoryToSend [email protected]:/'
command3 = command1 + ", " + command2

client = paramiko.Transport((hostname, port))
client.connect(username=username, password=password)

stdout_data = []
stderr_data = []
session = client.open_channel(kind='session')
session.exec_command(command3)
while True:
    if session.recv_ready():
        stdout_data.append(session.recv(nbytes))
    if session.recv_stderr_ready():
        stderr_data.append(session.recv_stderr(nbytes))
    if session.exit_status_ready():
        break

print 'exit status: ', session.recv_exit_status()
print ''.join(stdout_data)
print ''.join(stderr_data)

session.close()
client.close()

Sounds like you need to set the local environment variable before establishing the connection. You should use os.environ, which is a dictionary reflecting the environment. — mdurant
– mdurant, Commented Jul 3, 2015 at 13:20
os.environ['ASPERA_SCP_PASS'] returns the value you entered above in python. — hiro protagonist
– hiro protagonist, Commented Jul 3, 2015 at 13:33
I am sorry, but i don't understand how I can use this within my code, could you give an example with my code please? — speedyrazor
– speedyrazor, Commented Jul 3, 2015 at 13:36

hiro protagonist · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-03 13:40:46Z

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something like this?

command1 = 'set ASPERA_SCP_PASS={}'.format(os.environ['ASPERA_SCP_PASS'])

answered Jul 3, 2015 at 13:40

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speedyrazor Over a year ago

I have updated the question, and now I get ‘exit status: 0’, but the command does not run on the remote server.

speedyrazor Over a year ago

Running this above commadn I get raise KeyError(key) KeyError: 'ASPERA_SCP_PASS'

hiro protagonist Over a year ago

please clarify what you do on the local and what on the remote machine.

speedyrazor Over a year ago

I am running this python script on my local OSX machine, and using this python script I am trying to SSH into a Windows Server machine which is on IP address 10.0.0.1, and run a command line application called ascp.exe. This ascp.exe needs the local environment setting (on the remote Windows Server machine).

hiro protagonist Over a year ago

then you can hard-code the password into your code; or is there a reason you write it into the environment variables (which is not good security practice...). and i give up; sorry; no windows experience.

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