[Tutor] security with ssh??

[Thomi Richards]

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>:

> 
> On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 07:18  AM, Thomi Richards wrote:
> 
> > 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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