[Freeipa-users] Custom kinit

[Yago Fernández Pinilla]

Thanks for the info!

I will work more on this and comment my progress



On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Rob Crittenden <rcritten at redhat.com> wrote:

> Yago Fernández Pinilla wrote:
> > I'm using FreeIpa 3.3.5. And according to what I saw, using the API,
> > seems to be the best option.
> >
> > For the time being I just want to request tickets and check tickets.
> >
> > Is that possible?
> > .
>
> I'm still not sure what it is you're trying to do.
>
> It's important to remember that IPA isn't a server itself, it is a
> collection of services configured to work together towards a common goal
> (centralized identity). What we add is a management framework on top to
> (hopefully) make things easier. This is what our API does, helps you
> manage users, groups, etc.
>
> A ticket is a Kerberos concept and you would obtain it directly from the
> KDC. The IPA API is not involved in that case.
>
> If that is what you want to do then it involves the python-krbV package
> which is difficult at best to use and doesn't implement the entire
> Kerberos stack. You can though do the equivalent of a kinit using a
> keytab doing something like:
>
> import krbV
> from ipalib import api
>
> api.bootstrap(context='test')
> api.finalize()
>
> ccache_file = 'FILE:/tmp/host_ccache'
> krbcontext = krbV.default_context()
> principal = str('host/%s@%s' % (api.env.host, api.env.realm))
> keytab = krbV.Keytab(name='/etc/krb5.keytab', context=krbcontext)
> principal = krbV.Principal(name=principal, context=krbcontext)
> os.environ['KRB5CCNAME'] = ccache_file
> ccache = krbV.CCache(name=ccache_file, context=krbcontext,
>     primary_principal=principal)
> ccache.init(principal)
> cache.init_creds_keytab(keytab=keytab, principal=principal)
>
> You'll definitely want to do something differently with the ccache file
> than I'm showing here.
>
> I threw in IPA client initialization here so you could use this to
> prepare to do IPA API calls.
>
> rob
>
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Rob Crittenden <rcritten at redhat.com
> > <mailto:rcritten at redhat.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Yago Fernández Pinilla wrote:
> >     > I want to integrate it in other service. Is there any good
> >     documentation
> >     > about the APIs?
> >
> >     We really need more details in order to help you.
> >
> >     The API for IPA is not documented though once you get the patterns
> down
> >     it is fairly straightforward.
> >
> >     This of course is a completely separate issue of kinit in python.
> What
> >     release of IPA on which distro(s) are you looking at?
> >
> >     rob
> >
> >     >
> >     > Thanks in advance
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Jakub Hrozek <jhrozek at redhat.com
> >     <mailto:jhrozek at redhat.com>
> >     > <mailto:jhrozek at redhat.com <mailto:jhrozek at redhat.com>>> wrote:
> >     >
> >     >     On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 02:43:00PM +0200, Yago Fernández
> >     Pinilla wrote:
> >     >     > Hi,
> >     >     >
> >     >     > I would like to create a script in python that does the same
> >     that
> >     >     kinit, I
> >     >     > don´t where to start.
> >     >
> >     >     Why do you need this?
> >     >
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> >     > Yago Fernández Pinilla
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Yago Fernández Pinilla
e-mail: yagofp8 at gmail.com
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