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diff --git a/Demo/pdist/README b/Demo/pdist/README index 37719cb..b3fac24 100644 --- a/Demo/pdist/README +++ b/Demo/pdist/README @@ -6,27 +6,47 @@ Filesystem, RCS and CVS client and server classes This directory contains various modules and classes that support remote file system operations. -rrcs.py Remote RCS client command line interface -rrcs Script to put in your bin directory +CVS stuff +--------- -rcvs.py Remote CVS client command line interface rcvs Script to put in your bin directory - -sumtree.py Old demo for FSProxy -cmptree.py First FSProxy client (used to sync from the Mac) +rcvs.py Remote CVS client command line interface cvslib.py CVS admin files classes (used by rrcs) +cvslock.py CVS locking algorithms + +RCS stuff +--------- + +rrcs Script to put in your bin directory +rrcs.py Remote RCS client command line interface + rcsclient.py Return an RCSProxyClient instance (has reasonable default server/port/directory) +RCSProxy.py RCS proxy and server classes (on top of rcslib.py) + +rcslib.py Local-only RCS base class (affects stdout & + local work files) + +FSProxy stuff +------------- + +sumtree.py Old demo for FSProxy +cmptree.py First FSProxy client (used to sync from the Mac) FSProxy.py Filesystem interface classes -RCSProxy.py RCS interface classes + +Generic client/server stuff +--------------------------- client.py Client class server.py Server class security.py Security mix-in class (not very secure I think) +Other generic stuff +------------------- + cmdfw.py CommandFrameWork class (used by rcvs, should be used by rrcs as well) @@ -89,12 +109,13 @@ Server in order to match the class names. *** Security warning: this version requires that you have a file -$HOME/.python_keyfile at the server and client side containing two comma- -separated numbers. The security system at the moment makes no guarantees -of actuallng being secure -- however it requires that the key file -exists and contains the same numbers at both ends for this to work. -(You can specify an alternative keyfile in $PYTHON_KEYFILE). +$HOME/.python_keyfile at the server and client side containing two +comma- separated numbers. The security system at the moment makes no +guarantees of actuallng being secure -- however it requires that the +key file exists and contains the same numbers at both ends for this to +work. (You can specify an alternative keyfile in $PYTHON_KEYFILE). Have a look at the Security class in security.py for details; basically, if the key file contains (x, y), then the security server -class chooses a random number z (the challenge) in the range 10..100000 -and the client must be able to produce pow(z, x, y) (i.e. z**x mod y). +class chooses a random number z (the challenge) in the range +10..100000 and the client must be able to produce pow(z, x, y) +(i.e. z**x mod y). |