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Aamir Khan
Aamir Khan

Reputation: 324

Fabric is asking for password at the prompt even though password is specified in code

I'm running a small code that uses fabric's rsync_project function to connect to a remote machine and transfer a file to it. I've assigned env.password with the password of the server.

However, when I run the code, I get prompted for password. After entering the password, the file gets transferred. But I do not want to get prompted.

Here's my code:

from fabric import environment
from fabric.contrib.project import rsync_project
env.hosts = ['172.16.154.134']
env.password = 'user@123'
def sync(remote_dir, local_dir):
    rsync_project(remote_dir, local_dir)

Maybe I have misunderstood what env.password is for. If so, please tell me some other way to get rid of the prompt that asks for password.

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1153

Answers (1)

2ps
2ps

Reputation: 15926

This is a common misunderstanding. Once you set env in code, whatever function you call should be called with execute.

from fabric.state import env
from fabric.decorators import task
from fabric.api import execute
from fabric.contrib.project import rsync_project

env.hosts = ['172.16.154.134']
env.password = 'user@123'

def internal_sync(remote_dir, local_dir):
    rsync_project(remote_dir, local_dir)

# use task to define the external endpoint for the fab command line
@task
def sync(remote_dir, local_dir):
    """Does an rsync from remote_dir => local_dir"""
    # above docstring for `fab --list`
    # call `internal_sync` using the env
    # parameters we set in code
    execute(internal_sync, remote_dir, local_dir)

And from the command line:

fab sync:/path/to/remote,/path/to/local

Upvotes: 1

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