AccountsΒΆ
Pyzor Accounts can be used to grant or restrict access to the Pyzor Server, by ensuring the client are authenticated.
To get an account on a server requires coordination between the client user and server admin. Use the following steps:
User and admin should agree on a username for the user. Allowed characters for a username are alpha-numerics, the underscore, and dashes. The normative regular expression it must match is
^[-\.\w]+$
. Let us assume they have agreed on bob.User generates a key with
pyzor genkey
. Let us say that it generates the salt,key of:227bfb58efaba7c582d9dcb66ab2063d38df2923,8da9f54058c34e383e997f45d6eb74837139f83bAssuming the server is at
127.0.0.1:9999
, the user puts the following entry into~/.pyzor/accounts
:127.0.0.1 : 9999 : bob : 227bfb58efaba7c582d9dcb66ab2063d38df2923,8da9f54058c34e383e997f45d6eb74837139f83bThis tells the Pyzor Client to use the bob account for server
127.0.0.1:9999
. It will still use the anonymous user for all other servers.The user then sends the key (the part to the right-hand side of the comma) to the admin.
The admin adds the key to their
~/.pyzor/pyzord.passwd
:bob : 8da9f54058c34e383e997f45d6eb74837139f83bAssuming the admin wants to give the privilege of whitelisting (in addition to the normal permissions), the admin then adds the appropriate permissions to
~/.pyzor/pyzord.access
:check report ping pong info whitelist : bob : allowFor more information see Access File.
To reload the account and access information send the
USR1
signal to the daemon.