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@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ http://www.lag.net/~robey/paramiko/ *** WHAT "paramiko" is a combination of the esperanto words for "paranoid" and "friend". -it's a module for python 2.3 that implements the SSH2 protocol for secure +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 heirarchical certificates signed by a powerful central authority. you may know SSH2 as the protocol that replaced @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ should have come with this archive. *** REQUIREMENTS python 2.3 <http://www.python.org/> + (python 2.2 may work with some pain) pyCrypt <http://www.amk.ca/python/code/crypto.html> PyCrypt compiled for Win32 can be downloaded from the HashTar homepage: @@ -46,6 +47,13 @@ it changes behavior in some fundamental ways, and these ways require posix. so don't call "fileno()" on a Channel on Windows. this is detailed in the documentation for the "fileno" method. +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. this may not work on windows. (works fine on osx.) +* there is no logging, period. +you really should upgrade to python 2.3. laziness is no excuse! + *** DEMO @@ -81,7 +89,7 @@ which actually motivated me to write more documentation than i ever would have before. there are also unit tests here: - $ python2 ./test.py + $ python ./test.py which will verify that some of the core components are working correctly. not much is tested yet, but it's a start. the tests for SFTP are probably the best and easiest examples of how to use the SFTP class. |