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@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@ paramiko :Homepage: http://www.lag.net/paramiko/ -paramiko 1.7.6 -============== +paramiko 1.7.7.1 +================ -"Fanny" release, 1 november 2009 +"George" release, 21 may 2011 What @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ 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 heirarchical +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 @@ -38,18 +38,9 @@ that should have come with this archive. Requirements ------------ - - python 2.3 <http://www.python.org/> + - python 2.3 or better <http://www.python.org/> (python 2.2 is also supported, but not recommended) - - pycrypto 1.9+ <http://www.amk.ca/python/code/crypto.html> - (2.0 works too) - -pycrypto compiled for Win32 can be downloaded from the HashTar homepage: - http://nitace.bsd.uchicago.edu:8080/hashtar - -you can also build it yourself using the free MinGW tools and this command -line (thanks to Roger Binns for the info):: - - python setup.py build --compiler=mingw32 bdist_wininst + - 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):: @@ -60,34 +51,34 @@ dependencies with this command (as root):: 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 +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 +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 + * 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! :) +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 +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 +installs.) Valeriy Pogrebitskiy says the best place to look is ``.../lib/python*/encodings/__init__.py``. |