Trying to create a Python Server

Question

Hello,

I am looking at trying to create a python server, which allows me to run root commands on a Centos Server remotely, I would also like the server to be able to respond with the result's of the command.

I have found another question on here which has a basic python server, however it throws a error, the code is:

#!/usr/bin/python
import os
import socket
print "  Loading Bindings..."
settings = {}
line = 0
for each in open('/root/actions.txt', 'r'):
 line = line + 1
  each = each.rstrip()
  if each <> "":
    if each[0] <> '#':
      a = each.partition(':')
      if a[2]:
        settings[a[0]] = a[2]
      else:
        print "    Err @ line",line,":",each
print "  Starting Server...",
port = 12345
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
s.bind(("", port))
print "OK."
print "  Listening on port:", port
while True:
    datagram = s.recv(1024)
    if not datagram:
        break
    print "Rx Cmd:", datagram
    if settings.has_key(datagram):
      print "Launch:", settings[datagram]
      os.system(settings[datagram]+" &")
s.close()

When i run using python vzctl.py. I get the following error:

  File "vzctl.py", line 9
    each = each.rstrip()
    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Does anyone have any idea of the error, and if it would be possible to add the function of the server responding with the output of the command.

You can see the source of this script at : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/722172/how-can-i-have-a-php-script-run-a-shell-script-as-root

Thanks, Ashley

Answer 1

you need to keep indentation at the same level for each nested statement throughout your code.

Answer 2

On a different note: why not using TwistedMatrix?