How to program in Python to run system commands in 1000s of servers

Thu Apr 7 07:27:39 EDT 2011

Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> writes:
> I'm not sure how to parse:

>> We cannot use ssh as root remote connectivity as well.
>> but with 1000's of servers, I really don't see any alternative to ssh, 
> with key authentication. You don't really propose to type passwords at 
> 1000's of machines, do you?

I guess it might mean someone decided to config sshd with
PermitRootLogin no... I believe this is common? I don't think it's a
particularly good idea, especially for a large scale deployment.
So I guess there may be some config needed for the machines before
they can be remotely administrated in an automatic fashion.