Python and SSH

[pehr anderson]

I'm guessing you want somebody to ssh to your box, and instead of 
their normal bash shell,
they see your python app instead. 
This is easily doable by creating a new user
and setting it's shell to be the name of your
python app in /etc/passwd.

If you look at /etc/passwd you will notice that
most accounts have /bin/bash as the last argument.
Just change that to be an absolute path to your
python script! You move from this:


ssh -- client
 |
BIG BAD INTERNET
 |
sshd -- daemon
 |
bash -- user shell to do general stuff


to this:


ssh -- client
 |
BIG BAD INTERNET
 |
sshd -- daemon
 |
your app as the user's default shell.


Does this help?

	-pehr

Cary O'Brien wrote:
> 
> I'd like to have a running python process ACCEPT an incoming SSH
> connection.  Any ideas on how I could do this?
> 
> -- cary