Belier in Debian

Belier (the french word for ram) is now in Debian, thanks to Christian Perrier.

Belier allows opening a shell or executing a command on a remote host through a SSH connection. The main feature of Belier is its ability to cross several intermediate computers before realizing the job.

• Belier reaches the final host through intermediate machines.
• You can execute commands with any account available on the remote host.
• It is possible to switch account on intermediate computers before accessing the final host.
• It is also possible to swith the network ports from one host to another.
• You can open a data tunnel through every host you cross to the final host.
• Belier generates one script for each final computer to reach.

Belier aims to give a single system administrator a tool to work independently, without requiring to modify anything on the computers he has to cross, just using the current SSH configurations of every machines he has to work with, centralizing the needed information for connections on the administrator’s workstation.

• Belier project’s homepage
• How to use Belier
• Mailing-list for Belier’s users

Python-keyring in Debian

I have been introducing the Python Keyring library in this previous post. At that time I was looking for a sponsor and thanks to Piotr Ożarowski, python-keyring is now available in Sid.

What for ?

• You can access the keyring you use on your system (Gnome-keyring, KWallet) to store your app’s passwords.
• It’s a unified access to keyrings that the Python Keyring library provides, meaning you can easely write your own backend for your keyring software.
• You can create your own keyring, crypted on a file, still with the same library.
• Keyrings are cool and this library provides a great way to play with them, from your Python applications.
• When mature, the Keyring library will be integrated in the official Python module getpass, which means you’re not learning yet-another-soon-unmaintained library.

How ?

The source package provides three binary packages :

• python-keyring : the Keyring library without the support of both Gnome-keyring and KWallet.
• python-keyring-gnome : the support for Gnome-keyring.
• python-keyring-kwallet : the support for KWallet.

If you use passwords in your Python apps, it’s worth to give python-keyring a try.

Python-keyring : accessing the system keyring service from Python

It’s always painful to enter passwords in apps. Sometimes you just can’t remember, especially if you don’t use them on a regular basis. Keyrings fortunatly are really popular now (Gnome-keyring, KWallet) and provide a great way to manage your passwords, only requiring the unique keyring password.

The Python keyring library offers a unique and simple library to access the active keyring on your system.

Based on a idea by Tarez Ziadé (official Python distutils module maintainer) and coded by Kang Zhang during the 2009 Google Summer of Code, this library aims to be merged when mature to the official Python getpass module.

Python-keyring is looking for a sponsor.  The Debian package for python-keyring has been uploaded on mentors.debian.net accessible at the following urls :

http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/python-keyring/

http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/python-keyring/python-keyring_0.1+hg66-1.dsc

Please feel free to contact me if you’re interested in sponsoring  the Python keyring library.

Yet another Debian contributor

I can’t believe I’m really writing for planet.debian.org Thanks a lot to Sandro Tosi for this.

My story with Debian began years ago but it’s only for 5 months I contribute on a regular basis, most of the time coding for Reportbug (4.6’s gonna rock, new features inside! Thanks again Sandro). In March, Raphaël Hertzog and Roland Mas organized a Debian Contribution Contest targeting French-speaking Free Software community so here I am. Thanks a lot! I also try to increase my contribution to DPMT and DPAT these days. Thanks to Piotr Ożarowski to review my packages.

See you soon,
Carl

Ps: And a last thanks to Christian Perrier for sponsoring Belier!

Yet another blog from a debian contributor

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