>> >> From what you wrote, I think that you need to change architecture. You >> should write your own service rather than write tricky programs. This >> way you can develop your own security system, and restrict access to >> specific files/programs. You can write tools that can connect to your >> service. The service program can be ran on the background, with >> sufficient privileges. How does it sound? > > [Bermard] Any ressource you could point me to as to write services? > I'm totally unexperienced with that. I'm sorry, I was out of town in the weekend. You can try to write a multi-threaded application server that provides services through TCP/IP. Probably, the easiest to start with an existing framework:
http://twistedmatrix.com/projects/core/ http://www.webwareforpython.org/ There are many other libraries, you can look for them in the cheeseshop. http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi You can also develop your own protocol with SocketServer or xmlrpc: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-SocketServer.html http://docs.python.org/lib/module-xmlrpclib.html Best, Laszlo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
