Features/SystemConfigProposalVConsole

System-Config Propsal

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Proposal

Rework (not a total rewrite) system-config tools use a common virtual console which abstracts away local and remote console usage. Anticipated benefits:

• transparently handle local or remote console (via ssh)
• allow configuration of remote services
• possible allow for OS independent usage (example: system-config-httpd could be used from Windows XP)
• allow for those who prefer not to run server tools with a X server installed to make use of the system-config tools
• allows for centrally logging system-config actions (audit trail)
• standardize routines/functionality commonly used by system-config tools

Requirements

• handle both local and remote (via ssh) connections
• allow running of super commands via 'root login', 'su' or 'sudo'
• not be dependent on any non standard python modules or non LSB tools
• implemented in Python
• implementation should be platform independent

Possible Members

very incomplete

Methods

• hasTUI(), hasCurses(), hasGUI()
• openFile(), closeFile(), getFile(), closeFile()
• doCommand(), doCommandWait()
• copyFile(), moveFile()
• copyDir(), moveDir()
• connect(), disconnect()

Properties

• host
• status
• user
• userpassword
• superuser
• superuserpassword
• method (local|ssh + login|su|sudo)

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Program Flow

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Acknowledgment

• idea originally expressed here by ArthurPemberton