ssh2.session¶

class ssh2.session.MethodType¶

class ssh2.session.Session¶

LibSSH2 Session class providing session functions

agent_auth(self, username)¶

Convenience function for performing user authentication via SSH Agent.

Initialises, connects to, gets list of identities from and attempts authentication with each identity from SSH agent.

Note that agent connections cannot be used in non-blocking mode - clients should call set_blocking(0) after calling this function.

On completion, or any errors, agent is disconnected and resources freed.

All steps are performed in C space which makes this function perform better than calling the individual Agent class functions from Python.

Raises:	`MemoryError` on error initialising agent
Raises:	`ssh2.exceptions.AgentConnectionError` on error connecting to agent
Raises:	`ssh2.exceptions.AgentListIdentitiesError` on error getting identities from agent
Raises:	`ssh2.exceptions.AgentAuthenticationError` on no successful authentication with all available identities.
Raises:	`ssh2.exceptions.AgentGetIdentityError` on error getting known identity from agent
Return type:	None

agent_init(self)¶

Initialise SSH agent.

Return type:	`ssh2.agent.Agent`

block_directions(self)¶

Get blocked directions for the current session.

From libssh2 documentation:

Can be a combination of:

ssh2.session.LIBSSH2_SESSION_BLOCK_INBOUND: Inbound direction blocked.

ssh2.session.LIBSSH2_SESSION_BLOCK_OUTBOUND: Outbound direction blocked.

Application should wait for data to be available for socket prior to calling a libssh2 function again. If LIBSSH2_SESSION_BLOCK_INBOUND is set select should contain the session socket in readfds set.

Correspondingly in case of LIBSSH2_SESSION_BLOCK_OUTBOUND writefds set should contain the socket.

Return type:	int

direct_tcpip(self, host, int port)¶

Open direct TCP/IP channel to host:port

Channel will be listening on an available open port on client side as assigned by OS.

direct_tcpip_ex(self, host, int port, shost, int sport)¶

disconnect(self)¶

forward_listen(self, int port)¶

Create forward listener on port.

Parameters:	port (int) – Port to listen on.
Return type:	`ssh2.listener.Listener` or None

forward_listen_ex(self, int queue_maxsize, host=None, int port=0)¶

Instruct the remote SSH server to begin listening for inbound TCP/IP connections. New connections will be queued by the library until accepted by ssh2.channel.Channel.forward_accept.

Parameters:	queue_maxsize (int) – Maximum number of pending connections to queue before rejecting further attempts. host (str) – Address to bind to on the remote host. Binding to 0.0.0.0 (default when None is passed) will bind to all available addresses. port (int) – port to bind to on the remote host. When 0 is passed (the default), the remote host will select the first available dynamic port.
Returns:	(listener, bound_port) tuple where bound_port is the listen port bound on the remote host. Useful when requesting dynamic port numbers.
Return type:	(`ssh2.listener.Listener`, int)

get_blocking(self)¶

Get session blocking mode enabled True/False.

Return type:	bool

get_timeout(self)¶: Get current session timeout setting

handshake(self, sock)¶

Perform SSH handshake.

Must be called after Session initialisation.

hostkey(self)¶

Get server host key for this session.

Returns key, key_type tuple where key_type is one of ssh2.session.LIBSSH2_HOSTKEY_TYPE_RSA, ssh2.session.LIBSSH2_HOSTKEY_TYPE_DSS, or ssh2.session.LIBSSH2_HOSTKEY_TYPE_UNKNOWN

Return type:	tuple(bytes, int)

hostkey_hash(self, int hash_type)¶

Get computed digest of the remote system’s host key.

Parameters:	hash_type (int) – One of `ssh2.session.LIBSSH2_HOSTKEY_HASH_MD5` or `ssh2.session.LIBSSH2_HOSTKEY_HASH_SHA1`
Return type:	bytes

keepalive_config(self, bool want_reply, unsigned int interval)¶

Configure keep alive settings.

Parameters:	want_reply (bool) – True/False for reply wanted from server on keep alive messages being sent or not. interval (int) – Required keep alive interval. Set to `0` to disable keepalives.

keepalive_send(self)¶

Send keepalive.

Returns seconds remaining before next keep alive should be sent.

Return type:	int

knownhost_init(self)¶

Initialise a collection of known hosts for this session.

Return type:	`ssh2.knownhost.KnownHost`

last_errno(self)¶

Retrieve last error number from libssh2, if any. Returns 0 on no last error.

Return type:	int

last_error(self, size_t msg_size=1024)¶

Retrieve last error message from libssh2, if any. Returns empty string on no error message.

Return type:	str

method_pref(self, MethodType method_type, prefs)¶

Set preference for session method.

See Session.supported_algs() for supported algorithms for method type.

Parameters:	method_type (`MethodType`) – A supported session method LIBSSH2_METHOD_* prefs (str) – Algorithm preference for method type provided.
Return type:	int
Raises:	`ssh2.exceptions.MethodNotSupported` on unsupported method preference

methods(self, MethodType method_type)¶

Get currently active algorithms for method type.

Parameters:	method_type (`MethodType`) – Type of method to get
Return type:	str

open_session(self)¶

Open new channel session.

Return type:	`ssh2.channel.Channel`

publickey_init(self)¶: Initialise public key subsystem for managing remote server public keys

scp_recv(self, path)¶

Receive file via SCP.

Deprecated in favour or recv2 (requires libssh2 >= 1.7).

Parameters:	path (str) – File path to receive.
Return type:	tuple(`ssh2.channel.Channel`, `ssh2.statinfo.StatInfo`) or None

scp_recv2(self, path)¶

Receive file via SCP.

Parameters:	path (str) – File path to receive.
Return type:	tuple(`ssh2.channel.Channel`, `ssh2.fileinfo.FileInfo`) or `None`

scp_send(self, path, int mode, size_t size)¶

Deprecated in favour of scp_send64. Send file via SCP.

Parameters:	path (str) – Local file path to send. mode (int) – File mode. size (int) – size of file
Return type:	`ssh2.channel.Channel`

scp_send64(self, path, int mode, libssh2_uint64_t size, time_t mtime, time_t atime)¶

Send file via SCP.

Parameters:	path (str) – Local file path to send. mode (int) – File mode. size (int) – size of file
Return type:	`ssh2.channel.Channel`

set_blocking(self, bool blocking)¶

Set session blocking mode on/off.

Parameters:	blocking (bool) – `False` for non-blocking, `True` for blocking. Session default is blocking unless set otherwise.

set_last_error(self, int errcode, errmsg)¶

set_timeout(self, long timeout)¶

Set the timeout in milliseconds for how long a blocking call may wait until the situation is considered an error and ssh2.error_codes.LIBSSH2_ERROR_TIMEOUT is returned.

By default or if timeout set is zero, blocking calls do not time out. :param timeout: Milliseconds to wait before timeout.

sftp_init(self)¶

Initialise SFTP channel.

Return type:	`ssh2.sftp.SFTP`

startup(self, sock)¶: Deprecated - use self.handshake

supported_algs(self, MethodType method_type)¶

Get supportd algorithms for method type.

Parameters:	method_type (`MethodType`) – Type of method to get
Returns:	List of supported algorithms.
Return type:	list(str)

userauth_authenticated(self)¶

True/False for is user authenticated or not.

Return type:	bool

userauth_hostbased_fromfile(self, username, privatekey, hostname, publickey=None, passphrase='')¶

userauth_keyboardinteractive(self, username, password)¶

Perform keyboard-interactive authentication

Parameters:	username (str) – User name to authenticate. password (str) – Password

userauth_list(self, username)¶

Retrieve available authentication methods list.

Return type:	list

userauth_password(self, username, password)¶

Perform password authentication

Parameters:	username (str) – User name to authenticate. password (str) – Password

userauth_publickey(self, username, bytes pubkeydata)¶

Perform public key authentication with provided public key data

Parameters:	username (str) – User name to authenticate as pubkeydata (bytes) – Public key data
Return type:	int

userauth_publickey_fromfile(self, username, privatekey, passphrase='', publickey=None)¶

Authenticate with public key from file.

Return type:	int

userauth_publickey_frommemory(self, username, bytes privatekeyfiledata, passphrase='', bytes publickeyfiledata=None)¶

sock¶