# $Id$
# $URL$
-"""Delegate accounts are used to provide secure access to the XMLRPC API. They are normal Unix accounts with a shell that tunnels XMLRPC requests to the API server."""
+"""Delegate accounts are used to provide secure access to the XMLRPC API.
+They are normal Unix accounts with a shell that tunnels XMLRPC requests to the API server."""
-import accounts
-import logger
-import tools
from pwd import getpwnam
from grp import getgrnam
+import logger
+import tools
+import accounts
+
class Controller(accounts.Account):
SHELL = '/usr/bin/forward_api_calls' # tunneling shell
TYPE = 'controller.Controller'
def is_running(self):
logger.verbose("controller: is_running: %s" % self.name)
return getpwnam(self.name)[6] == self.SHELL
-
+
def add_shell(shell):
"""Add <shell> to /etc/shells if it's not already there."""