Kerberos authentication with python

python security kerberos
dertoni picture dertoni · Feb 13, 2009 · Viewed 24.1k times · Source

I need to write a script in python to check a webpage, which is protected by kerberos. Is there any possibility to do this from within python and how? The script is going to be deployed on a linux environment with python 2.4.something installed.

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batbrat picture batbrat · Feb 13, 2009

I think that python-krbV and most Linux distributions also have a python-kerberos package. For example, Debian has one of the same name. Here's the documentation on it

Extract from link:

"This Python package is a high-level wrapper for Kerberos (GSSAPI) operations. The goal is to avoid having to build a module that wraps the entire Kerberos.framework, and instead offer a limited set of functions that do what is needed for client/server Kerberos authentication based on http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4559.txt. "

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