The high-level python API starts with the creation of a secure connection object. To have more direct control and pass a socket to transport to start remote access. As a client, it’s authenticating using a user credential or private key, and checking the server’s host key.
Paramiko is a Python library that makes a connection with a remote device through SSh. Paramiko is using SSH2 as a replacement of SSL to make a secure connection between two devices. It also supports the SFTP client and server model.
Installation
On Windows
To install Paramiko on Windows using pip run below command on cmd.
pip install paramiko
Output:
To check the installed paramiko run the following:
pip list
Output:
Install paramiko using .whl file offline. To download .whl file https://pypi.org/project/paramiko/#files
pip install paramiko-2.7.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Output :
On Linux
Python paramiko can be installed on Linux in many ways, using pip is one of them.
pip install paramiko
Output :
To check the installed paramiko:
pip list --format=json
Output:
