Wrapper around ssh/sshpass

scpPass

#!/usr/bin/env python3

# Python3 version of https://askubuntu.com/a/878335/58760
#
# See https://github.com/sorend/sshconf
#
# pip3 install sshconf

from __future__ import print_function
import shutil, subprocess, sys
from sshconf import read_ssh_config
from os.path import expanduser

c: str = read_ssh_config(expanduser("~/.ssh/config"))

if len(sys.argv) < 3:
  print(f"""Usage: 
  {sys.argv[0]} /dir1 host2:/dir2
  {sys.argv[0]} host1:/dir1 /dir2""")
  sys.exit(1)

if shutil.which("sshpass") == None:
  print("Please install sshpass and retry.")
  sys.exit(2)

try:
  host = sys.argv[1].rsplit(":", 1)[0]
  password: str = c.host(host)["password"]
  command = [ "sshpass", f"-p{password}" ] 
except KeyError:
  try:
    host = sys.argv[2].rsplit(":", 1)[0]
    password: str = c.host(host)["password"]
    command = [ "sshpass", f"-p{password}" ] 
  except KeyError:
    command = [ ]

command = command + [ "scp" ] + sys.argv[1:]

subprocess.run(command)

sshPass

#!/usr/bin/env python3

# See https://github.com/sorend/sshconf
#
# pip3 install sshconf

from __future__ import print_function
import shutil, subprocess, sys
from sshconf import read_ssh_config
from os.path import expanduser

debug: bool = bool(False)

c: str = read_ssh_config(expanduser("~/.ssh/config"))

if debug: print("hosts", c.hosts()) 

# assuming you have a host "bear"
if debug: print("bear host", c.host("bear"))    # print the settings
if debug: print("bear host", c.host("bear")["password"])  # print password only

if len(sys.argv) == 1:
  print(f"Usage: {sys.argv[0]} host [command]")
  sys.exit(1)

if shutil.which("sshpass") == None:
  print("Please install sshpass and retry.")
  sys.exit(2)

host: str = sys.argv[1]
try:
  password: str = c.host(host)["password"]
  command = [ "sshpass", f"-p{password}", "ssh", host ] + sys.argv[2:]
  if debug: print(f"Password of {host} is {password}")
except KeyError:
  command = [ "ssh", host ] + sys.argv[2:]

if debug: print(f"Command: {command}")  
subprocess.run(command)