Python SSH paramiko issue - ssh from inside of ssh session

Question

import paramiko

client = paramiko.SSHClient()
client.load_system_host_keys()
ip = '192.168.100.6'
client.connect(ip, username='root', password='mima')
i, o, e = client.exec_command('apt-get install sl -y --force-yes')
print o.read(), e.read()
client.close()

i used this example.. it is working fine but i want after login server1 to login server2 i mean nested ssh .

Answer 1

can't you call the ssh command from inside of your client.exec_command?
like:

client.exec_command('ssh user@host2 "apt-get install sl -y --force-yes"')

Answer 2

You exec the command "ssh" in the client, and not apt-get.

You can't really start a paramiko session on the client as long as your python program isn't there. The software you start using ssh must live on that machine.

Perhaps first scp a copy of your software, and start that using a parameter like -recursive_lvl = 1 ?