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diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..db342e22 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.rst @@ -0,0 +1,136 @@ +======== +Paramiko +======== + +.. Continuous integration and code coverage badges + +.. image:: https://travis-ci.org/paramiko/paramiko.svg?branch=master + :target: https://travis-ci.org/paramiko/paramiko +.. image:: https://coveralls.io/repos/paramiko/paramiko/badge.svg?branch=master&service=github + :target: https://coveralls.io/github/paramiko/paramiko?branch=master + +:Paramiko: Python SSH module +:Copyright: Copyright (c) 2003-2009 Robey Pointer <robeypointer@gmail.com> +:Copyright: Copyright (c) 2013-2016 Jeff Forcier <jeff@bitprophet.org> +:License: `LGPL <https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html>`_ +:Homepage: http://www.paramiko.org/ +:API docs: http://docs.paramiko.org +:Development: https://github.com/paramiko/paramiko + + +What +---- + +"Paramiko" is a combination of the Esperanto words for "paranoid" and +"friend". It's a module for Python 2.6+/3.3+ 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 (though it depends on third-party C wrappers +for low level crypto; these are often available precompiled) and is released +under the GNU Lesser General Public License (`LGPL +<https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html>`_). + +The package and its API is fairly well documented in the ``docs`` folder that +should have come with this archive. + + +Installation +------------ + +For most users, the recommended method to install is via pip:: + + pip install paramiko + +For more detailed instructions, see the `Installing +<http://www.paramiko.org/installing.html>`_ page on the main Paramiko website. + + +Portability Issues +------------------ + +Paramiko primarily supports POSIX platforms with standard OpenSSH +implementations, and is most frequently tested on Linux and OS X. Windows is +supported as well, though it may not be as straightforward. + +Bugs & Support +-------------- + +:Bug Reports: `Github <https://github.com/paramiko/paramiko/issues/>`_ +:Mailing List: ``paramiko@librelist.com`` (see the `LibreList website + <http://librelist.com/>`_ for usage details). +:IRC: ``#paramiko`` on Freenode + + +Kerberos Support +---------------- + +Paramiko ships with optional Kerberos/GSSAPI support; for info on the extra +dependencies for this, see the `GSS-API section +<http://www.paramiko.org/installing.html#gssapi>`_ +on the main Paramiko website. + + +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() + +This 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 authenticate 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. + +: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. + +:demo_keygen.py: + A key generator similar to OpenSSH ``ssh-keygen(1)`` program with + Paramiko keys generation and progress functions. + +Use +--- + +The demo scripts are probably the best example of how to use this package. +There is also a lot of documentation, generated with Sphinx autodoc, in the +doc/ folder. + +There are also unit tests here:: + + $ python ./test.py + +Which will verify that most of the core components are working correctly. |