Kerberos authentication with python

Question

Hi,

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.

dertoni

Answer 1

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 - http://packages.debian.org/testing/python/python-kerberos.

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. "

I hope this helps out.

Best of luck.