Scripting SSH and SFTP Made Easy With Python

LinuxPlanet - Tutorials - Scripting SSH and SFTP Made Easy With Python - Secure, Automated SSH and SFTP Sessions: "SSH is an indispensable tool that I use every day for file transfers, remote execution of tasks, setting up network port redirection between systems (tunneling), and securely driving a shell on a remote system. While the SSH commandline client on UNIX and Linux systems is how I interact most often with SSH servers on the remote end, there are times when it is helpful to script some action or series of actions rather than performing them interactively."