I am a member of the TestOps team at my client. Our team is responsible for building test systems. In some releases, it is mandatory to reset the default password right after the application installation and this is time-consuming. This scenario was ideal for automation. I wrote a Python program using AsyncSSH and asyncio to save our team’s time. Limitation […]
Reset password on multiple machines in parallel using AsyncSSH
Handling set new password prompt with Paramiko
Why this post? I hit an issue at one of our client recently – beginning from the latest version of the application, the remote server will prompt for a new password in the first login attempt, the password that comes out of the box will take you to the set new password prompt where you need to set a new […]
SSH using Python Paramiko
Recently, as part of an automated test, we needed to SSH into a server, toggle a service and then check the response on a web application. We used the Python module Paramiko. We ended up writing simple wrappers around the most common actions test automation may need to perform over SSH. In this post, we will share the same. We […]