Hi, I need a perspective broker with authentification and followed the Twisted documentation on http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/core/howto/tap.html#auto4 to get the twistd plugin to work. Now I want to make it work with the /etc/shadow, but don't know how to get it to work. The plugin looks like: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- from zope.interface import implements from twisted.python import usage from twisted.plugin import IPlugin from twisted.application.service import IServiceMaker from twisted.application import internet from twisted.cred import credentials, portal, strcred from twisted.spread import pb from qxmt.QXMTServer import QXMTUser class Options(usage.Options, strcred.AuthOptionMixin): # This part is optional; it tells AuthOptionMixin what # kinds of credential interfaces the user can give us. supportedInterfaces = (credentials.IUsernamePassword,) optParameters = [["port", "p", 8789, "Server port number"]] class QXMTRealm: implements(portal.IRealm) def requestAvatar(self, avatarId, mind, *interfaces): if pb.IPerspective not in interfaces: raise NotImplementedError return pb.IPerspective, QXMTUser(avatarId), lambda: None class QXMTServiceMaker(object): implements(IServiceMaker, IPlugin) tapname = "qxmt" description = "The QXtend remote error processing tool." options = Options def makeService(self, options): """ Construct a TCPServer from a factory defined in qxmt. """ p = portal.Portal(QXMTRealm(), options["credCheckers"]) #c = checkers.InMemoryUsernamePasswordDatabaseDontUse(user1="pass1", #p.registerChecker(c) return internet.TCPServer(int(options['port']), pb.PBServerFactory(p)) serviceMaker = QXMTServiceMaker() ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Running twistd qxmt --help-auth gives Usage: --auth AuthType[:ArgString] For detailed help: --help-auth-type AuthType AuthType ArgString format ======== ================ memory A colon-separated list (name:password:...) file Location of a FilePasswordDB-formatted file. unix No argstring required. And twistd qxmt --help-auth-type unix gives Usage: --auth unix[:ArgString] ArgString format: No argstring required. This checker will attempt to use every resource available to authenticate against the list of users on the local UNIX system. (This does not support Windows servers for very obvious reasons.) Right now, this includes support for: * Python's pwd module (which checks /etc/passwd) * Python's spwd module (which checks /etc/shadow) Future versions may include support for PAM authentication. So, I guess the server now should be able to use the system's shadow passwords for authentification. As a client I used with the InMemoryUsernamePasswordDatabaseDontUse checker the following code. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #!/usr/bin/env python # Copyright (c) 2009 Twisted Matrix Laboratories. # See LICENSE for details. from twisted.spread import pb from twisted.internet import reactor from twisted.cred import credentials def main(): factory = pb.PBClientFactory() reactor.connectTCP("localhost", 8789, factory) def1 = factory.login(credentials.UsernamePassword("user1", "pass1")) def1.addCallback(connected) reactor.run() def connected(perspective): print "got perspective1 ref:", perspective print "asking it to foo(13)" perspective.callRemote("foo", 13) main() ----------------------------------------------------------------------- How to rewrite the client to make it work with --auth=unix ? Thanks, Frans