[Freeipa-devel] another snag with kerberos

[Karl MacMillan]

On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 10:33 -0400, John Dennis wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 09:02 -0400, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> > I don't see a way to add headers to the client request using xmlrpclib.py.
> 
> I took a quick look at xmlrpclib.py. I agree there does not seem to be a
> way to add headers in the exported API. However, it's not a complicated
> module and fairly cleanly written so it looks like it would be
> relatively easy to edit the the module and add the authentication
> functionality. This would mean the IPA implementation would have it's
> own private copy of the module but I suspect once it's working a diff
> against the original sent as a patch to upstream would be most welcome
> and then at a later date you can nuke your private copy once upstream
> ships the fix.

Not ideal - but seems workable. Rob - any other options or is this the
way you want to go?

Karl