kerberos with urllib2 proof of concept

Tim Olsen tim at brooklynpenguin.com
Tue Jun 24 17:48:43 CDT 2008


On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:35:45 +0200
Trygve Laugstøl <trygvis at inamo.no> wrote:
> Solaris and Mac both have the kerberos command line tools (kinit and 
> klist), but how would windows clients authenticate? Is there
> something similiar to kinit in windows?

Kerberos is built into Microsoft's ActiveDirectory.  As usual though,
it has been embraced-and-extended a bit.  I believe you can, however,
set it up to work with a non-Microsoft KDC.  There is some
information on it in _Kerberos:_The_Definitive_Guide_, published by
O'Reilly (information in that book is current as of 5 years ago though).

Googling for "kerberos windows" pulls up some interesting links.
There is an MIT kerberos distribution for Windows (see
http://web.mit.edu/Kerberos/dist/).  I'm not sure if it includes kinit,
but it does have Leash, a graphical UI for getting your tickets.

Cheers,
Tim



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