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So, you say you need to write a program which needs to run another program on a remote machine?

If you’re fluent in Python, you might want to check out Paramiko. Paramiko has this to say for itself:

paramiko is a module for python 2.2 (or higher) that implements the SSH2 protocol for secure (encrypted and authenticated) connections to remote machines.

It requires pycrypto, as well.