Password authentication fails with Arista vEos

[ganeshrn]

SUMMARY

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

PYLISSH and LIBSSH VERSION

devel

OS / ENVIRONMENT

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

clone repo and build the binaries
Refer: https://github.com/ansible/pylibssh#building-the-module

Add binary file PYTHONPATH

$ export PYTHONPATH="${PYTHONPATH}:<path-to-cloned-repo>/src"

Run below python script

import os

from pylibsshext.session import Session
from pylibsshext.errors import LibsshSessionException

ssh = Session()

HOST = "<changeme>"
USER = "<changeme>"
PASSWORD = BECOME_PASSWORD = "<changeme>"


try:
    ssh.connect(
        host=HOST,
        user=USER,
        password=PASSWORD,
        timeout=30,
        port=22,
        look_for_keys=False
    )
except LibsshSessionException as ex:
    print(str(ex))

print(ssh.is_connected)

EXPECTED RESULTS

Password authentication should work

ACTUAL RESULTS

Password authentication fails