Remotelogin: SSH/Telnet/Local login helper

Note: This package will only run in Python version 3.4+

The remotelogin package has three main packages:

• connections
• devices
• fdutils

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remotelogin.connections

This package contains abstractions to connections to a device. The connection can be via SSH, Telnet, or command line for local connections. A connection can be command-only, where no terminal is required but no profile is loaded and probably no file wildcard expansion is allowed; or a TerminalConnection where we have full terminal interactivity with profiles loaded and can keep our environment variables on.

An example of simple ssh connection:

from remotelogin.connections.ssh import SshConnection
ssh = SshConnection(host='127.0.0.1',
                    username='learningpython',
                    password='letmein')

with ssh.open() as conn:
    print('My Hostname is: {}'.format(conn.check_output('hostname')))

A multi-hop connection, where we want to connect to a target device but we first need to connect to one or more intermediate devices:

from remotelogin.connections.ssh import SshConnection
from remotelogin.connections.telnet import TelnetConnection
from remotelogin.connections.terminal import TerminalConnection

vm_info=dict(host="127.0.0.1",
             username="learningpython",
             password="letmein",
             expected_prompt=r'learner\@ubuntu\:\~\$')

hop1=SshConnection(**vm_info)
hop2=TelnetConnection(**vm_info)
target=SshConnection(**vm_info)

multihop = TerminalConnection(hop1, hop2, target)

with multihop.open() as conn:
    # printing the full conversation through the three connections 
    print(conn.get_conversation_string())

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remotelogin.devices

This package contains a higher layer abstraction for devices that is comprise of a set of connections, a set of users, a set of files related to the device, and a set of services (even though this last one is not implemented)

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remotelogin.fdutils

This package contains a set of utilities that range from tools to use selenium (fdutils.selenium_util), to files utilities (fdutils.files), to tools to donwload resources from the web (fdutils.web), and several others that I frequently used. They are not all needed for the remotelogin package but I usually keep them together for my own benefit.

The tools in this package can be used by itself usually, and they are actually use by the connections and devices packages. I might move them out to their own repo in the future.