There is a struct in Python called dictionary (dict) that is next to JSON and already have a specific class to convert it. So, I created a dictionary structure and was already halfway there.

For XML there are another classes, but I would needed to implement the same logic again and it is a bad smell.

Searching, I found some gists of functions that convert dict to XML but they were not what I needed.

So follow the complete code that I used to create based on another gists.

References:

• Huseyin Yilmaz – Convert python dictionary to xml
• Ye Lui – dict2xml
• Reimund – Simple Dictionary XML Serializer

And you, already had similar situation? Comment it!

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PublicKey Authentication SSH

If you frequently access hosts using ssh with user and password and do not know public key authentication, this post is for you.

I will not explain about advantages and disadvantages, clearly and practically I want to show you how create and use the private key to authenticate on ssh.

To create a public key and a private key we use the command ssh-keygen

$ ssh-keygen -t dsa

Type enter until create the keys, that will stay at .ssh in your home

$ ls -l ~/.ssh
/home/your_username/.ssh/id_dsa
/home/your_username/.ssh/id_dsa.pub

Now you need copy the content of public key to autorized_key file at the .ssh directory of your remote server.
There are many ways to do it, the simplest may be the following.

$ ssh remote_user@remote_host "echo `cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub` >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys"

In one line, this command connect to remote host and copy the public key to correct file. Probably you need to type the remote user’s password to login.

Replace remote_user to user that should login in remote host and, logically replace remote_host to server that you want to login.

May occur that the .ssh does not exists in the remote server at the home user directory, to solve it I run the command to create directory if do not exists.

$ ssh remote_user@remote_host mkdir -p .ssh

It is important to stress that the server should be configured to accept public key authentication, where is configured in the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config

# allow public key authentication
PubkeyAuthentication yes

If necessary to reconfigure the server, you need restart the service:
For CentOS

$ svc -du /var/service/sshd/

Plus!

I created a script that does everything at once. You only need to replace the variables that I mentioned above (user and host) and then the script is ready:

I hope this helps.

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