I am new to Python and wanted to know how to best handle this situation. I am currently trying to run a series of commands on remote Linux servers. Each server has one user and a root user on them. I am currently using Fabric to automate this task, but I am getting unexpected behavior.

I have tried the following:

import from fabric import *

connect_kwargs = {'key_filename': r'C:pathtokey'}

conn = Connection('X.X.X.X', user = 'user1', connect_kwargs = connect_kwargs)
conn.run("hostname", pty=True,warn=True)

returns the proper hostname

Conversely,

running

connect_kwargs = {'key_filename': r'C:pathtokey}

conn = Connection('X.X.X.X', user = 'root_user', connect_kwargs = connect_kwargs)
conn.run("hostname", pty=True,warn=True)

returns an interactive shell waiting for user input. I have found a workaround using Responders, but it seems as if this is more of a patchwork solution as opposed to a complete one. I would appreciate any input. Thanks.