title: Problem originating SSH tunnels from python
body: <p>The object is to set up n number of ssh tunnels between satellite servers and a centralized registry database. I have already set up public key authentication between my servers so they just log right in without password prompts. Now what ? I've tried Paramiko. It seems decent but gets pretty complicated just to set up a basic tunnel, although code exmplaes would be aprreciated. I've tried Autossh and it dies 2 minutes after setting up a working tunnel, bizarre!  Hopefully someone can help me with a simple code snippet that I can daemonize and monitor with supervisord or monit.</p>