I'm not sure why I'm getting this error that's terminating my connection. I updated paramiko-1.7.6 from 1.7.5 via easy_install.

I'm trying to setup Fabric to upload my Django app to my server. The error seems to be happening when I attempt to make a backup of the existing app directory:

def backup_current_install():now = datetime.datetime.now()cmd="cp -r /home/path/django-projects/app /home/path/django-projects/app%s" % now.strftime("%Y%m%d_%I:%M:%S")
run(cmd)

I have set:

env.hosts  
env.password

In the fabfile and I'm not sure how to navigate this handler error.

It turns out that this error was a result of me not configuring env.password as a simple string.

Both env.user and env.password should be simple strings, not Lists. Documentation