SFTP is a simple and fairly reliable way to share the information within the organization. Let’s look at the situation when you need to pick up some files from a remote host with authorization by public key. And after that, let’s see how to use it with in python.
Moreover, let’s see how to work with SSH using python and execute any commands on the remote host. For example. if we need it to collect versions of installed packages and a version Linux distribution for further vulnerability analysis (see “Vulnerability Assessment without Vulnerability Scanner“). 😉
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Generating public key:
Here is the public key id_rsa.pub, which we send to the server owner, who will add it to the list of known keys:
Once he does this, we can go to that host by SSH:
And how download the files on the host from the python script? You will need to install pysftp:
# sudo pip install pysftp
To connect and download files from the ‘data/’ directory on the remote server to the local directory ‘data/’ we need to do something like this:
Ok, we dealt with the downloading. Now let’s see how to execute commands with SSH in python using paramiko module. When we installed pysftp we also installed paramiko by dependencies. We can use authentication by keys and by password (commented):
The output will be like this:
And having a list of packages we can check them for vulnerabilities using your own scripts or Vulners Audit API.
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Several tools exist to generate SSH public/private key pairs. The following sections show how to generate an SSH key pair on UNIX, UNIX-like and Windows platforms.
UNIX and UNIX-like platforms (including Solaris and Linux) include the ssh-keygen utility to generate SSH key pairs.
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your choice of file name for the private key:The ssh-keygen utility prompts you for a passphrase for the private key. Key generation failed encrypt_aes informix 12.
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Note:
While a passphrase is not required, you should specify one as a security measure to protect the private key from unauthorized use. When you specify a passphrase, a user must enter the passphrase every time the private key is used.
The ssh-keygen utility prompts you to enter the passphrase again.
filename
and the public key has been saved as filename
.pub
. It also displays information about the key fingerprint and randomart image.The PuTTYgen program is part of PuTTY, an open source networking client for the Windows platform.
To download PuTTY or PuTTYgen, go to http://www.putty.org/ and click the You can download PuTTY here link.
Generate rsa keys mac. As the key is being generated, move the mouse around the blank area as directed.
Note:
While a passphrase is not required, you should specify one as a security measure to protect the private key from unauthorized use. When you specify a passphrase, a user must enter the passphrase every time the private key is used.
.ppk
(PuTTY private key).Note:
The.ppk
file extension indicates that the private key is in PuTTY's proprietary format. You must use a key of this format when using PuTTY as your SSH client. It cannot be used with other SSH client tools. Refer to the PuTTY documentation to convert a private key in this format to a different format. Make sure you select all the characters, not just the ones you can see in the narrow window. If a scroll bar is next to the characters, you aren't seeing all the characters.
.pub
extension to indicate that the file contains a public key.ssh
utility on Linux), export the private key:.ppk
format, using an extension such as .openssh
to indicate the file's content.