Re: using Kerberos to authenticate to Active Directory from python ldap

[Geert J. <ge...@bo...>]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Olivier Sessink
<oli...@gm...> wrote:

> I noticed that there is some C code related to Kerberos in python-ad.
> Is this code required to initialize a kerberos authentication, or is
> this just to change passwords and things like that?

Actually, both. The C code exposes a small subset of the Kerberos API
to Python. I use it for credential management so things like acquire a
ticket using a password or a keytab, and to set or change a password.

Regards,
Geert