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diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst deleted file mode 100644 index 2ba06a3f..00000000 --- a/README.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,158 +0,0 @@ - -======== -paramiko -======== - -:Paramiko: Python SSH module -:Copyright: Copyright (c) 2003-2009 Robey Pointer <robeypointer@gmail.com> -:License: LGPL -:Homepage: http://www.lag.net/paramiko/ - - -paramiko 1.7.6 -============== - -"Fanny" release, 1 november 2009 - - -What ----- - -"paramiko" is a combination of the esperanto words for "paranoid" and -"friend". it's a module for python 2.2+ that implements the SSH2 protocol -for secure (encrypted and authenticated) connections to remote machines. -unlike SSL (aka TLS), SSH2 protocol does not require hierarchical -certificates signed by a powerful central authority. you may know SSH2 as -the protocol that replaced telnet and rsh for secure access to remote -shells, but the protocol also includes the ability to open arbitrary -channels to remote services across the encrypted tunnel (this is how sftp -works, for example). - -it is written entirely in python (no C or platform-dependent code) and is -released under the GNU LGPL (lesser GPL). - -the package and its API is fairly well documented in the "doc/" folder -that should have come with this archive. - - -Requirements ------------- - - - python 2.3 or better <http://www.python.org/> - (python 2.2 is also supported, but not recommended) - - pycrypto 2.1 or better <https://www.dlitz.net/software/pycrypto/> - -If you have setuptools, you can build and install paramiko and all its -dependencies with this command (as root):: - - easy_install ./ - - -Portability ------------ - -i code and test this library on Linux and MacOS X. for that reason, i'm -pretty sure that it works for all posix platforms, including MacOS. it -should also work on Windows, though i don't test it as frequently there. -if you run into Windows problems, send me a patch: portability is important -to me. - -python 2.2 may work, thanks to some patches from Roger Binns. things to -watch out for: - - * sockets in 2.2 don't support timeouts, so the 'select' module is - imported to do polling. - * logging is mostly stubbed out. it works just enough to let paramiko - create log files for debugging, if you want them. to get real logging, - you can backport python 2.3's logging package. Roger has done that - already: - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=75211&package_id=113804 - -you really should upgrade to python 2.3. laziness is no excuse! :) - -some python distributions don't include the utf-8 string encodings, for -reasons of space (misdirected as that is). if your distribution is -missing encodings, you'll see an error like this:: - - LookupError: no codec search functions registered: can't find encoding - -this means you need to copy string encodings over from a working system. -(it probably only happens on embedded systems, not normal python -installs.) Valeriy Pogrebitskiy says the best place to look is -``.../lib/python*/encodings/__init__.py``. - - -Bugs & Support --------------- - -there's a launchpage page for paramiko, with a bug tracker: - - https://launchpad.net/paramiko/ - -this is the primary place to file and browse bug reports. - -there's also a low-traffic mailing list for support and discussions: - - http://www.lag.net/mailman/listinfo/paramiko - - -Demo ----- - -several demo scripts come with paramiko to demonstrate how to use it. -probably the simplest demo of all is this:: - - import paramiko, base64 - key = paramiko.RSAKey(data=base64.decodestring('AAA...')) - client = paramiko.SSHClient() - client.get_host_keys().add('ssh.example.com', 'ssh-rsa', key) - client.connect('ssh.example.com', username='strongbad', password='thecheat') - stdin, stdout, stderr = client.exec_command('ls') - for line in stdout: - print '... ' + line.strip('\n') - client.close() - -...which prints out the results of executing ``ls`` on a remote server. -(the host key 'AAA...' should of course be replaced by the actual base64 -encoding of the host key. if you skip host key verification, the -connection is not secure!) - -the following example scripts (in demos/) get progressively more detailed: - -:demo_simple.py: - calls invoke_shell() and emulates a terminal/tty through which you can - execute commands interactively on a remote server. think of it as a - poor man's ssh command-line client. - -:demo.py: - same as demo_simple.py, but allows you to authenticiate using a - private key, attempts to use an SSH-agent if present, and uses the long - form of some of the API calls. - -:forward.py: - command-line script to set up port-forwarding across an ssh transport. - (requires python 2.3.) - -:demo_sftp.py: - opens an sftp session and does a few simple file operations. - -:demo_server.py: - an ssh server that listens on port 2200 and accepts a login for - 'robey' (password 'foo'), and pretends to be a BBS. meant to be a - very simple demo of writing an ssh server. - - -Use ---- - -the demo scripts are probably the best example of how to use this package. -there is also a lot of documentation, generated with epydoc, in the doc/ -folder. point your browser there. seriously, do it. mad props to -epydoc, which actually motivated me to write more documentation than i -ever would have before. - -there are also unit tests here:: - - $ python ./test.py - -which will verify that most of the core components are working correctly. |