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Class HostKeys

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UserDict.DictMixin --+
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                    HostKeys

Representation of an openssh-style "known hosts" file. Host keys can be read from one or more files, and then individual hosts can be looked up to verify server keys during SSH negotiation.

A HostKeys object can be treated like a dict; any dict lookup is equivalent to calling lookup.

Since: 1.5.3

Instance Methods
 
__getitem__(self, key) source code
 
__init__(self, filename=None)
Create a new HostKeys object, optionally loading keys from an openssh style host-key file.		 source code
 
__setitem__(self, hostname, entry) source code
 
add(self, hostname, keytype, key)
Add a host key entry to the table.		 source code
bool
check(self, hostname, key)
Return True if the given key is associated with the given hostname in this dictionary.		 source code
 
clear(self)
Remove all host keys from the dictionary.		 source code
 
keys(self) source code
 
load(self, filename)
Read a file of known SSH host keys, in the format used by openssh.		 source code
dict(str, PKey)
lookup(self, hostname)
Find a hostkey entry for a given hostname or IP.		 source code
 
save(self, filename)
Save host keys into a file, in the format used by openssh.		 source code
 
values(self) source code

Inherited from UserDict.DictMixin: __cmp__, __contains__, __iter__, __len__, __repr__, get, has_key, items, iteritems, iterkeys, itervalues, pop, popitem, setdefault, update

Static Methods
str
hash_host(hostname, salt=None)
Return a "hashed" form of the hostname, as used by openssh when storing hashed hostnames in the known_hosts file.		 source code
Method Details

__init__(self, filename=None)
(Constructor)

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Create a new HostKeys object, optionally loading keys from an openssh style host-key file.

Parameters:
  • filename (str) - filename to load host keys from, or None

add(self, hostname, keytype, key)

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Add a host key entry to the table. Any existing entry for a (hostname, keytype) pair will be replaced.

Parameters:
  • hostname (str) - the hostname (or IP) to add
  • keytype (str) - key type ("ssh-rsa" or "ssh-dss")
  • key (PKey) - the key to add

check(self, hostname, key)

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Return True if the given key is associated with the given hostname in this dictionary.

Parameters:
  • hostname (str) - hostname (or IP) of the SSH server
  • key (PKey) - the key to check
Returns: bool
True if the key is associated with the hostname; False if not

clear(self)

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Remove all host keys from the dictionary.

Overrides: UserDict.DictMixin.clear

hash_host(hostname, salt=None)
Static Method

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Return a "hashed" form of the hostname, as used by openssh when storing hashed hostnames in the known_hosts file.

Parameters:
  • hostname (str) - the hostname to hash
  • salt (str) - optional salt to use when hashing (must be 20 bytes long)
Returns: str
the hashed hostname

load(self, filename)

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Read a file of known SSH host keys, in the format used by openssh. This type of file unfortunately doesn't exist on Windows, but on posix, it will usually be stored in os.path.expanduser("~/.ssh/known_hosts").

If this method is called multiple times, the host keys are merged, not cleared. So multiple calls to load will just call add, replacing any existing entries and adding new ones.

Parameters:
  • filename (str) - name of the file to read host keys from
Raises:
  • IOError - if there was an error reading the file

lookup(self, hostname)

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Find a hostkey entry for a given hostname or IP. If no entry is found, None is returned. Otherwise a dictionary of keytype to key is returned. The keytype will be either "ssh-rsa" or "ssh-dss".

Parameters:
  • hostname (str) - the hostname (or IP) to lookup
Returns: dict(str, PKey)
keys associated with this host (or None)

save(self, filename)

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Save host keys into a file, in the format used by openssh. The order of keys in the file will be preserved when possible (if these keys were loaded from a file originally). The single exception is that combined lines will be split into individual key lines, which is arguably a bug.

Parameters:
  • filename (str) - name of the file to write
Raises:
  • IOError - if there was an error writing the file

Since: 1.6.1

values(self)

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Overrides: UserDict.DictMixin.values

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