From befbe7088412ca7cf1565fa09904b2d0bc75a79a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tasos Papaioannou <tpapaioa@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 17:01:07 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Fix ssh command usage (#14703)

---
 robottelo/cli/base.py       | 2 +-
 tests/robottelo/test_cli.py | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/robottelo/cli/base.py b/robottelo/cli/base.py
index c30231a4ea1..e7162da396e 100644
--- a/robottelo/cli/base.py
+++ b/robottelo/cli/base.py
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ def execute(
             command,
         )
         response = ssh.command(
-            cmd.encode('utf-8'),
+            cmd,
             hostname=hostname or cls.hostname or settings.server.hostname,
             output_format=output_format,
             timeout=timeout,
diff --git a/tests/robottelo/test_cli.py b/tests/robottelo/test_cli.py
index a2568f5a584..e6d6de2dd7b 100644
--- a/tests/robottelo/test_cli.py
+++ b/tests/robottelo/test_cli.py
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ def test_execute_with_raw_response(self, settings, command):
         response = Base.execute('some_cmd', return_raw_response=True)
         ssh_cmd = 'LANG=en_US  hammer -v -u admin -p password  some_cmd'
         command.assert_called_once_with(
-            ssh_cmd.encode('utf-8'),
+            ssh_cmd,
             hostname=mock.ANY,
             output_format=None,
             timeout=None,
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ def test_execute_with_performance(self, settings, command, handle_resp):
         response = Base.execute('some_cmd', hostname=None, output_format='json')
         ssh_cmd = 'LANG=en_US time -p hammer -v -u admin -p password --output=json some_cmd'
         command.assert_called_once_with(
-            ssh_cmd.encode('utf-8'),
+            ssh_cmd,
             hostname=mock.ANY,
             output_format='json',
             timeout=None,