Python - How to use Conch to create a Virtual SSH server?

When you write a Conch server, you can control what happens when the client makes a shell request by implementing ISession. OpenShell The Conch server will request IConchUser from your realm and then adapt the resulting avatar to ISession to call openShell on it if necessary ISession. OpenShell s job is to take the transport object passed to it and associate it with a protocol to interpret the bytes received from it and, if desired, to write bytes to it to be sent to the client In an unfortunate twist, the object passed to openShell which represents the transport is actually an IProcessProtocol provider.

This means that you need to call makeConnection on it, passing an IProcessTransport provider. When data is received from the client, the IProcessProtocol will call writeToChild on the transport you pass to makeConnection When you want to send data to the client, you should call childDataReceived on it To see the exact behavior, I suggest reading the implementation of the IProcessProtocol that is passed in Don't depend on anything that's not part of IProcessProtocol but seeing the implementation can make it easier to understand what's going on You may also want to look at the implementation of the normal shell-creation to get a sense of what you're aiming for. This will give you a clue about how to associate the stdio of the bzr child process you launch with the SSH channel.

When you write a Conch server, you can control what happens when the client makes a shell request by implementing ISession.openShell. The Conch server will request IConchUser from your realm and then adapt the resulting avatar to ISession to call openShell on it if necessary. ISession.

OpenShell's job is to take the transport object passed to it and associate it with a protocol to interpret the bytes received from it and, if desired, to write bytes to it to be sent to the client. In an unfortunate twist, the object passed to openShell which represents the transport is actually an IProcessProtocol provider. This means that you need to call makeConnection on it, passing an IProcessTransport provider.

When data is received from the client, the IProcessProtocol will call writeToChild on the transport you pass to makeConnection. When you want to send data to the client, you should call childDataReceived on it. To see the exact behavior, I suggest reading the implementation of the IProcessProtocol that is passed in.

Don't depend on anything that's not part of IProcessProtocol, but seeing the implementation can make it easier to understand what's going on. You may also want to look at the implementation of the normal shell-creation to get a sense of what you're aiming for. This will give you a clue about how to associate the stdio of the bzr child process you launch with the SSH channel.

While Python really is my favorite language, I think you need not create you own server for this. When you look at the OpenSSH Manualpage for sshd you'll find the "command" options for the authorized keys file that lets you define a specific command to run on login. Using keys, you can use one system account to allow many user to log in, just put their public keys in the account's authorized keys file.

We are using this to create SSH tunnels for SVN and it works just great.

This is not how I want to do it. It needs to be in python (which I can get to do the authorisation) but don't know how to do the linking to the app. This needs to be in python to work within the app its designed for, and to be able to be used for those without access to add new users – Mez Oct 9 '08 at 9:03.

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