Skip Huawei special_login_handler under interactive WebCRT, harden stelnet host-key auth, and echo hop/login progress into the terminal during connect.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Keep the facade for callers, retarget unit-test patches to ne_session_connect, and fix the ConnectHandler coverage case to use a non-Cisco device type.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
ConnectHandler is a factory function in current Netmiko; subclass the CLASS_MAPPER driver (e.g. ZteZxrosSSH) when wrapping a pre-authenticated Paramiko session.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
OpenSSH treats the last @ as user/host separator, so the SSH username must be hop@target@ip without duplicating hop_host. Legacy templates with {hop_host} are stripped automatically; connect logs now show bastion_ssh_cli for comparison with manual ssh.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
ZTE-TSM and similar bastions reject standard SSH password auth and require Vault password via keyboard-interactive; connect over an authenticated Paramiko session instead of re-handshaking with Netmiko.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Support composite-username bastion login for automated connect-test and exec, with bastion-managed or manual target credential modes.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
