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The document describes an issue connecting to a PostgreSQL database on a remote server through an SSH tunnel in Python. The code provided opens an SSH tunnel to the remote server but fails to connect to the database. Suggested modifications include calling server.start() after opening the tunnel and using server.local_bind_port when specifying the database connection parameters.

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Connecting To Postgresql Database Through SSH Tunneling in Pytho1

The document describes an issue connecting to a PostgreSQL database on a remote server through an SSH tunnel in Python. The code provided opens an SSH tunnel to the remote server but fails to connect to the database. Suggested modifications include calling server.start() after opening the tunnel and using server.local_bind_port when specifying the database connection parameters.

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I am trying to connect to connect to a server remotely and then access it's local
database with python. I am successfully connecting to the server, although I can't seem
to connect to the database on the server. My code is below:

import psycopg2
from sshtunnel import SSHTunnelForwarder

try:

with SSHTunnelForwarder(
('<server ip address>', 22),
ssh_private_key="</path/to/private/ssh/key>",
ssh_username="<server username>",
remote_bind_address=('localhost', 5432)) as server:

print "server connected"

conn = psycopg2.connect(database="<dbname>",port=server.local_bind_port)
curs = conn.cursor()
print "database connected

except:
print "Connection Failed"
This is bits and pieces of example code I have found around the internet. I have also
tried the connection statements below in place of the connect ones above:

params = {
'database': '<dbname>',
'user': '<dbusername>',
'password': '<dbuserpass>',
'host': 'localhost',
'port': 5432
}
conn = psycopg2.connect(**params)
I know I can connect to the database because on my machine; I am able to
use sqlectron to tunnel in and connect appropriately.
Just in case it is not clear what I am trying to do from above, I need to ssh tunnel into
my remote server using a private ssh key on my computer (working properly), and then
I need to connect to a PostgreSQL database that is on localhost at port 5432.
I am currently getting the current error message for both ways of trying to connect:

2016-01-23 11:16:10,978 | ERROR | Tunnel: 0.0.0.0:49386 <> localhost:5432 error: (9, 'Bad file
descriptor')

python database postgresql ssh ssh-tunnel

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edited Jan 24 '16 at 9:13

Will
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I don't know if this may be helpful, but I had to connect to a Postgresql database
through SSH tunneling as well. I succeded to connect using your code with some
modifications:

import psycopg2
from sshtunnel import SSHTunnelForwarder

try:

with SSHTunnelForwarder(
('<server ip address>', 22),
#ssh_private_key="</path/to/private/ssh/key>",
### in my case, I used a password instead of a private key
ssh_username="<server username>",
ssh_password="<mypasswd>",
remote_bind_address=('localhost', 5432)) as server:

server.start()
print "server connected"

params = {
'database': '<dbname>',
'user': '<dbusername>',
'password': '<dbuserpass>',
'host': 'localhost',
'port': local_bind_port
}

conn = psycopg2.connect(**params)
curs = conn.cursor()
print "database connected"

except:
print "Connection Failed"
After adding server.start(), the code worked nicely. Furthermore, inverted commas were
missing after 'database connected'. I hope this might be helpful to you, thanks for
sharing your code!
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edited Sep 11 '17 at 6:36

Uwe
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answered May 6 '16 at 17:19
Aliossandro
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 I tried the above code but I am see the following error HandlerSSHTunnelForwarderError: In #1 <--
('127.0.0.1', 53281) to ('10.160.1.24', 5432) failed: ChannelException(2, 'Connect failed').
Any idea what I could be doing wrong? – Pradeep Vairamani Jun 23 '16 at 19:56
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Both these examples were very helpful. I had an issue with binding the local port
manually in the db connection. We have a dynamic port on our server I guess? I
combined elements of the two examples. Using sever.local_bind_port may be a more
robust and dynamic resolution.

from sshtunnel import SSHTunnelForwarder #Run pip install sshtunnel


from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker #Run pip install sqlalchemy

with SSHTunnelForwarder(
('<remote server ip>', 22), #Remote server IP and SSH port
ssh_username = "<username>",
ssh_password = "<password>",
remote_bind_address=('<local server ip>', 5432)) as server: #PostgreSQL server IP and sever port
on remote machine

server.start() #start ssh sever


print 'Server connected via SSH'

#connect to PostgreSQL
local_port = str(server.local_bind_port)
engine = create_engine('postgresql://<username>:<password>@127.0.0.1:' + local_port
+'/database_name')

Session = sessionmaker(bind=engine)
session = Session()

print 'Database session created'

#test data retrieval


test = session.execute("SELECT * FROM database_table")
for row in test:
print row['id']

session.close()

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