"""Functionality common to all account classes.
-Each subclass of Account must provide five methods: create() and
-destroy(), which are static; configure(), start(), and stop(), which
-are not. configure(), which takes a record as its only argument, does
-things like set up ssh keys. In addition, an Account subclass must
+Each subclass of Account must provide five methods:
+ (*) create() and destroy(), which are static;
+ (*) configure(), start(), and stop(), which are not.
+
+configure(), which takes a record as its only argument, does
+things like set up ssh keys. In addition, an Account subclass must
provide static member variables SHELL, which contains the unique shell
that it uses; and TYPE, a string that is used by the account creation
code. For no particular reason, TYPE is divided hierarchically by
maximum stack size.
"""
-import Queue
+#import Queue
import os
-import pwd
-import grp
+import pwd, grp
import threading
import logger
@staticmethod
def create(name, vref = None): abstract
+
@staticmethod
def destroy(name): abstract
def is_running(self): pass
class Worker:
+
def __init__(self, name):
self.name = name # username
self._acct = None # the account object currently associated with this worker