[Twisted-Python] Telnet server using Twisted and AuthenticatingTelnetProtocol

[exarkun at twistedmatrix.com]

On 07:07 am, filoufake-python at yahoo.fr wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have created a telnet server in python.
>
>Maybe you wonder why to create a telnet server while Windows has one?
>Because the windows telnet server does not allow to interract with the
>desktop. If you try to start a GUI app, it will start and run but will
>not be displayed on the server desktop.
>
>My telnet server will allow to start a GUI application interracting 
>with the windows desktop of the server.
>Ex. : typing "notepad" in the telnet console will pop up the notepad on 
>the Windows desktop of the server.
>
>At the time this server works but has no authentication feature 
>implemented.
>
>I would like to implement the authentication using 
>AuthenticatingTelnetProtocol and credential.
>I found the "cred.py" example on the twistedmatrix website (in the 
>example section) and looked fine as starting point.
>
>I quite well understand this expample.
>
>I modified the code as follow but always got the same error message 
>when a connectiion is attempted.
>I have been trying since two weeks but I cannot get it work.
>
>Is there a problem with "AuthenticatingTelnetProtocol"

AuthenticatingTelnetProtocol requires an argument to its constructor - 
the cred portal to use to do the authentication and authorization with. 
However, ServerFactory.buildProtocol doesn't invoke it with any 
arguments, so you get a TypeError.  You can fix this by making your 
factory's protocol be a no-argument callable instead - eg, by making it 
a lambda that closes over the portal or the factory:

    def __init__(self, portal):
        self.protocol = lambda: AuthenticatingTelnetProtocol(portal)


However, this won't completely fix your problems. 
AuthenticatingTelnetProtocol expects to be connected to an 
ITelnetTransport, not an ITCPTransport.

http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/browser/branches/telnet-server- 
example-3940/doc/conch/examples/telnet_echo.tac might help illuminate 
the way telnet transports and telnet protocols are intended to be 
assembled.

Jean-Paul