from paramiko.client import AutoAddPolicy, WarningPolicy, RejectPolicy, SSHClient client = SSHClient() client.set_missing_host_key_policy(AutoAddPolicy) # $ Alert # bad client.set_missing_host_key_policy(RejectPolicy) # good client.set_missing_host_key_policy(WarningPolicy) # $ Alert # bad # Using instances client.set_missing_host_key_policy(AutoAddPolicy()) # $ Alert # bad client.set_missing_host_key_policy(RejectPolicy()) # good client.set_missing_host_key_policy(WarningPolicy()) # $ Alert # bad # different import import paramiko client = paramiko.SSHClient() client.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy) # $ Alert # bad