findssh 1.0.1

find open servers on your IPv4 subnet, e.g. SSH.

findssh

Platform-independent Python >= 3.5 script that finds SSH servers (or other services with open ports) on an IPv4 subnet, WITHOUT NMAP.

author:

Michael Hirsch, Ph.D.

Contents

• findssh

  • Install

  • Usage

    • Command line options

  • Future

  • Notes

Install

You can just run findssh.py directly, but to allow use from other programs, you can install by:

pip install findssh

or from this repo:

pip install -e .

Usage

Takes about 40 seconds to scan an IPv4 subnet.

from Terminal:

python findssh.py

or from within Python

import findssh

findssh.run()

Command line options

-s

checks the string from the server to attempt to verify the correct service has been found.

-t

timeout

-b

baseip (check other subnet besides your own)

-p

port

Future

consider non-blocking/threading

Notes

Python <= 3.2 is that socket doesn’t have a context manager.