Paramiko can be used to manage servers through SSHv2 as well. Let's look at an example of how we can use Paramiko to manage servers. We will use key-based authentication for the SSHv2 session.
In this example, I used another Ubuntu virtual machine on the same hypervisor as the destination server. You can also use a server on the VIRL simulator or an instance in one of the public cloud providers, such as Amazon AWS EC2.
We will generate a public-private key pair for our Paramiko host:
ssh-keygen -t rsa
This command, by default, will generate a public key named id_rsa.pub, as the public key under the user home directory ~/.ssh along with a private key named id_rsa. Treat the private key with the same attention as you would ...
