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Coding challenge for Paychex interview

paychex coding challenge

A python script that automates copying files from remote Server A and transfers them to remote Server B Information used to login to the servers is pulled from a config.env file which should be created locally. For demo purposes, I set up to Ubuntu virtual machines locally using VM ware and installed ssh tools on both.

Requirements for this lab

• Python3
• VM WARE Software
• UBUNTU ISO

SET UP Virtual Machines

• Install ssh tools on virtual machines using apt command in terminal sudo apt install openssh-server
• Open ssh on virtual machines sudo ufw allow ssh

MODULE REQUIREMENTS FOR PYTHON SCRIPT

• need to install dotenv and pathlib to read from env file
• need to install paramiko using pip3 (used to SSH into servers)
• need to install scp module - used for securely copying files between servers. install using pip3 install (used to copy files) https://pypi.org/project/scp/

BELOW ARE IMPORT STATEMENTS OF REQUIRED MODULES. ALL NON NATIVE MODULES CAN BE INSTALLED USING PIP3

import re
import os
import subprocess
import paramiko
from dotenv import load_dotenv
from pathlib import Path
from scp import SCPClient
import glob 

This script requires a config.env in the same directory level as the copy.py file It should have the following values

config.env

USERNAME=usernameforservers
PASSWORD=password_for_servers
SERVER_1=ipaddress_of_source
SERVER_2=ipaddress_of_destination
SSH_PORT=port_for_ssh