Metadata-Version: 1.0 Name: keyring Version: 0.6.2 Summary: Store and access your passwords safely. Home-page: http://home.python-keyring.org/ Author: Kang Zhang Author-email: jobo.zh@gmail.com License: PSF Description: .. -*- restructuredtext -*- ======================================= Installing and Using Python Keyring Lib ======================================= .. contents:: **Table of Contents** --------------------------- What is Python keyring lib? --------------------------- The Python keyring lib provides a easy way to access the system keyring service from python. It can be used in any application that needs safe password storage. The keyring services supported by the Python keyring lib: * **OSXKeychain**: supports the Keychain service in Mac OS X. * **KDEKWallet**: supports the KDE's Kwallet service. * **GnomeKeyring**: for Gnome environment. Besides these native password storing services provided by operating systems. Python keyring lib also provides following build-in keyrings. * **Win32CryptoKeyring**: for Windows 2k+. * **CryptedFileKeyring**: a command line interface keyring base on PyCrypto. * **UncryptedFileKeyring**: a keyring which leaves passwords directly in file. ------------------------- Installation Instructions ------------------------- easy_install or pip =================== Run easy_install or pip:: $ easy_install keyring $ pip install keyring Source installation =================== Download the source tarball, and uncompress it, then run the install command:: $ wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/k/keyring/keyring-0.3.tar.gz $ tar -xzvf keyring-0.3.tar.gz $ cd keyring-0.3 $ python setup.py install -------------------------- Configure your keyring lib -------------------------- The python keyring lib contains implementations for several backends, including **OSX Keychain**, **Gnome Keyring**, **KDE Kwallet** and etc. The lib will automatically choose the keyring that is most suitable for your current environment. You can also specify the keyring you like to be used in the config file or by calling the ``set_keyring()`` function. Customize your keyring by config file ===================================== This section is about how to change your option in the config file. Config file path ---------------- The configuration of the lib is stored in a file named "keyringrc.cfg". The file can be stored in either of following two paths. 1. The working directory of the python 2. The home directory for current user The lib will first look for the config file in the working directory. If no config file exists **or** the config file is not write properly, the lib will look up in the home folder. Config file content ------------------- To specify a keyring backend, you need tell the lib the module name of the backend, such as ``keyring.backend.OSXKeychain``. If the backend is not shipped with the lib, in another word, is made by you own, you need also tell the lib the path of your own backend module. The module name should be written after the **default-keyring** option, while the module path belongs the **keyring-path** option. Here's a sample config file(The full demo can be accessed in the ``demo/keyring.py``): :: [backend] default-keyring=simplekeyring.SimpleKeyring keyring-path=/home/kang/pyworkspace/python-keyring-lib/demo/ Write your own keyring backend ============================== The interface for the backend is defined by ``keyring.backend.KeyringBackend``. By extending this base class and implementing the three functions ``supported()``, ``get_password()`` and ``set_password()``, you can easily create your own backend for keyring lib. The usage of the three functions: * ``supported(self)`` : Return if this backend is supported in current environment. The returned value can be **0**, **1** , or **-1**. **0** means suitable; **1** means recommended and **-1** means this backend is not available for current environment. * ``get_password(self, service, username)`` : Return the stored password for the ``username`` of the ``service``. * ``set_password(self, service, username, password)`` : Store the ``password`` for ``username`` of the ``service`` in the backend. For an instance, there's the source code of the demo mentioned above. It's a simple keyring which stores the password directly in memory. :: """ simplekeyring.py A simple keyring class for the keyring_demo.py Created by Kang Zhang on 2009-07-12 """ from keyring.backend import KeyringBackend class SimpleKeyring(KeyringBackend): """Simple Keyring is a keyring which can store only one password in memory. """ def __init__(self): self.password = '' def supported(self): return 0 def get_password(self, service, username): return self.password def set_password(self, service, username, password): self.password = password return 0 Set the keyring in runtime ========================== Besides setting the backend through the config file, you can also set the backend to use by calling the api ``set_keyring()``. The backend you passed in will be used to store the password in your application. Here's a code snippet from the ``keyringdemo.py``. It shows the usage of ``set_keyring()`` :: # define a new keyring class which extends the KeyringBackend import keyring.backend class TestKeyring(keyring.backend.KeyringBackend): """A test keyring which always outputs same password """ def supported(self): return 0 def set_password(self, servicename, username, password): return 0 def get_password(self, servicename, username): return "password from TestKeyring" # set the keyring for keyring lib import keyring keyring.set_keyring(TestKeyring()) # invoke the keyring lib try: keyring.set_password("demo-service", "tarek", "passexample") print "password stored sucessfully" except keyring.backend.PasswordError: print "failed to store password" print "password", keyring.get_password("demo-service", "tarek") ----------------------------------------------- Integrate the keyring lib with your application ----------------------------------------------- API interface ============= The keyring lib has two functions: * ``get_password(service, username)`` : Returns the password stored in keyring. If the password does not exist, it will return None. * ``set_password(service, username, password)`` : Store the password in the keyring. Example ======= Here's an example of using keyring for application authorization. It can be found in the demo folder of the repository. Note that the faked auth function only returns true when the password equals to the username. :: """ auth_demo.py Created by Kang Zhang 2009-08-14 """ import keyring import getpass import ConfigParser def auth(username, password): """A faked authorization function. """ return username == password def main(): """This scrip demos how to use keyring facilite the authorization. The username is stored in a config named 'auth_demo.cfg' """ # config file init config_file = 'auth_demo.cfg' config = ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser({ 'username':'', }) config.read(config_file) if not config.has_section('auth_demo_login'): config.add_section('auth_demo_login') username = config.get('auth_demo_login','username') password = None if username != '': password = keyring.get_password('auth_demo_login', username) if password == None or not auth(username, password): while 1: username = raw_input("Username:\n") password = getpass.getpass("Password:\n") if auth(username, password): break else: print "Authorization failed." # store the username config.set('auth_demo_login', 'username', username) config.write(open(config_file, 'w')) # store the password keyring.set_password('auth_demo_login', username, password) # the stuff that needs authorization here print "Authorization successful." if __name__ == "__main__": main() ------------ Get involved ------------ Python keyring lib is an open community project and highly welcomes new contributors. * Repository: http://bitbucket.org/kang/python-keyring-lib/ * Bug Tracker: http://bitbucket.org/kang/python-keyring-lib/issues/ * Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/python-keyring ------- Credits ------- The project was based on Tarek Ziade's idea in `this post`_. Kang Zhang initially carried it out as a `Google Summer of Code`_ project, and Tarek mentored Kang on this project. .. _this post: http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/pycon-hallway-session-1-a-keyring-library-for-python/ .. _Google Summer of Code: http://socghop.appspot.com/ See CONTRIBUTORS.txt for a complete list of contributors. ------- CHANGES ------- ----- 0.6.2 ----- * fix compiling on OSX with XCode 4.0 ----- 0.6.1 ----- * Gnome keyring should not be used if there is no DISPLAY or if the dbus is not around (https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpadlib/+bug/752282). --- 0.6 --- * Added `keyring.http` for facilitating HTTP Auth using keyring. * Add a utility to access the keyring from the command line. ----- 0.5.1 ----- * Remove a spurious KDE debug message when using KWallet * Fix a bug that caused an exception if the user canceled the KWallet dialog (https://bitbucket.org/kang/python-keyring-lib/issue/37/user-canceling-of-kde-wallet-dialogs). --- 0.5 --- * Now using the existing Gnome and KDE python libs instead of custom C++ code. * Using the getpass module instead of custom code --- 0.4 --- * Fixed the setup script (some subdirs were not included in the release.) --- 0.3 --- * Fixed keyring.core when the user doesn't have a cfg, or is not properly configured. * Fixed escaping issues for usernames with non-ascii characters --- 0.2 --- * Add support for Python 2.4+ http://bitbucket.org/kang/python-keyring-lib/issue/2 * Fix the bug in KDE Kwallet extension compiling http://bitbucket.org/kang/python-keyring-lib/issue/3 Keywords: keyring Keychain GnomeKeyring Kwallet password storage Platform: Many