[SOLVED] Python - Paramiko Getting error "object has no attribute "get

Python - Paramiko Getting error "object has no attribute "get_fingerprint"

decided to give Python a try for the first time, so sorry if the answer is obvious.

I'm trying to create an ssh connection using paramiko. I'm using the below code:

#!/home/bin/python2.7

import paramiko
ssh = paramiko.SSHClient()
ssh.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())

ssh.connect("somehost.com", username="myName", pkey="/home/myName/.ssh/id_rsa.pub")
stdin, stdout, stderr = ssh.exec_command("ls -l")

print stdout.readlines()
ssh.close()

Pretty standard stuff, right? Except I'm getting this error:

 ./test.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./test.py", line 10, in <module>
ssh.connect("somehost", username="myName", pkey="/home/myName/.ssh/id_rsa.pub")
File "/home/lib/python2.7/site-packages/paramiko/client.py", line 327, in connect
self._auth(username, password, pkey, key_filenames, allow_agent, look_for_keys)
File "/home/lib/python2.7/site-packages/paramiko/client.py", line 418, in _auth
self._log(DEBUG, 'Trying SSH key %s' % hexlify(pkey.get_fingerprint()))
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'get_fingerprint'

What "str" object is it referring to? I thought I merely had to pass it the path to the RSA key but it seems to be wanting some object.

Solution

The pkey parameter should be the actual private key, not the name of the file containing the key. Note that pkey should be a PKey object and not a string (e.g. private_key = paramiko.RSAKey.from_private_key_file (private_key_filename) ). Instead of pkey you could use the key_filename parameter to pass the filename directly.

See the documentation for connect.