[Tutor] security with ssh??
Thomi Richards
thomi@thomi.imail.net.nz
Wed, 28 Aug 2002 00:29:52 +1200
thanks all, this answers my question. Whatever i do, it will end up
being more secure than the telnet method cisco routers use :-)
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 08:35:13 -0400 Thus said Erik Price
<erikprice@mac.com>:
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> On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 07:18 AM, Thomi Richards wrote:
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> > Is there any easy way that any of you ppl can think of, to provide
> > an ssh login to a computer, using python?? So that the user can ssh
> > in normally, but instead of sshing in to the actual machine, they
> > end up running the python program instead, and when they quit the
> > python program, they are disconnected?? I ask because i could not
> > find any sort of ssh module for python. does anyone know of one?
>
> I would read up on "ssh" since there's a lot of security implications
> in doing this (such as, is the information sent from your Python
> program to the ssh client secure??). ssh was written to be
> super-secure, and something like this -could- compromise it.
>
> That said, do a google search under the search criteria "ssh" and
> "wrapper" and see what others have done with C, C++, Tcl, etc. I'm
> sure you will find a lot, though not necessarily in Python. It
> shouldn't be too much different.
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> Erik
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