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:

  1. 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.

  2. User generates a key with pyzor genkey. Let us say that it generates the salt,key of:

    227bfb58efaba7c582d9dcb66ab2063d38df2923,8da9f54058c34e383e997f45d6eb74837139f83b
    
  3. Assuming the server is at 127.0.0.1:9999, the user puts the following entry into ~/.pyzor/accounts:

    127.0.0.1 : 9999 : bob : 227bfb58efaba7c582d9dcb66ab2063d38df2923,8da9f54058c34e383e997f45d6eb74837139f83b
    

    This 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.

  4. The user then sends the key (the part to the right-hand side of the comma) to the admin.

  5. The admin adds the key to their ~/.pyzor/pyzord.passwd:

    bob : 8da9f54058c34e383e997f45d6eb74837139f83b
    
  6. Assuming 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 : allow
    

    For more information see Access File.

  7. To reload the account and access information send the USR1 signal to the daemon.