Hello fabric world! (My first post to this fabulous group):
I'm building a set of WordPress maintenance tools with Python > Fabric > Invoke > Paramiko
It's working great on several popular hosting platforms that provide SSH and
WP-CLI
However, I keep running into issues where fabric is asking for the password over and over again --even though I've set the SSH 4096 RSA keys to log-me-in without password.
Currently the scripts are running successfully every morning, gathering plugin and theme data automatically for over 20 domains (running WP) at several different hosting companies. It's essential to this project that after the SSH RSA/DSA keys are properly installed and tested that the scripts never ask for a password again -- causing the scripts to halt.
Obviously, I'm trying to configure the strong SSH keys to NOT use a 'passphrase' and not use a 'password'. In some cases it needs a password, so I've jiggered up some code that keeps the password active.
CODE example
from fabric.api import *
from fabric.contrib.console import confirm
env.passwords = json.load(open("/blah/blah/web_hosts"))
env.use_ssh_config = True
env.skip_bad_hosts = True
env.output_prefix = False
env.warn_only = False # Set False to prevent PHP warnings, etc.
env.timeout = 45 # Wait up to 45 seconds
env.connection_attempts = 3 # Try connecting 3 times
env.eagerly_disconnect = True # Close the connection after batch
env.disable_known_hosts = False # False by default
# Warning: Setting env.disable_known_hosts = True leaves us open to
# man-in-the-middle attacks! Please use with caution when testing.
# -------------------------------------------------------------------
So, I keep asking myself -- Why do some hosts keeping asking for a password anyway? and Why is the script working on 20 domains, but not the few exceptions?
What suggestions do you have for debugging the SSH configs (keys, passwords, and passphrases) and web-hosts that are causing me grief?
I know about the issue with passphrase. I've read these pages
Starting to do some serious debugging and trouble shooting but it's taking many hours.... so looking for some helpful advice. Thank-you!
P.S. I'm starting to port my scripts to Fabric 2.3.1 -- but not there yet...