How to ssh connect through python Paramiko with ppk public key

Ok @Adam and @Kimvais were right, paramiko cannot parse .ppk files.

So the way to go (thanks to @JimB too) is to convert .ppk file to openssh private key format; this can be achieved using Puttygen as described here.

Then it's very simple getting connected with it:

import paramikossh = paramiko.SSHClient()ssh.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())ssh.connect('<hostname>', username='<username>', password='<password>', key_filename='<path/to/openssh-private-key-file>')stdin, stdout, stderr = ssh.exec_command('ls')print stdout.readlines()ssh.close()

For me I doing this:

import paramikohostname = 'my hostname or IP' myuser   = 'the user to ssh connect'mySSHK   = '/path/to/sshkey.pub'sshcon   = paramiko.SSHClient()  # will create the objectsshcon.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy()) # no known_hosts errorsshcon.connect(hostname, username=myuser, key_filename=mySSHK) # no passwd needed

works for me pretty ok

To create a valid DSA format private key supported by Paramiko in Puttygen.

Click on Conversions then Export OpenSSH Key