[Freeipa-users] ipalib authentication

[Standa Laznicka]

On 11/24/2016 04:27 PM, Adam Bishop wrote:
> I'm writing a bit of code using ipalib directly, I'm a little stuck on authentication though.
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> It works fine if grab a Kerberos ticket with kinit then run the code interactively, but I'd like to run this as a daemon which makes maintaining a ticket tricky.
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> What other options are there for authenticating to the API, avoiding calling external tools like curl or kinit?
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> Regards,
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> Adam Bishop
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Hello Adam,

Nice to see someone interested in FreeIPA development. For questions 
about developing FreeIPA, feel free to contact other developers at 
freeipa-devel at redhat.com (in CC). You can also create a pull request on 
GitHub (https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa) if you'd like to share your 
code with the community.

As for your question, would it be feasible to use keytabs? Sure, you 
still have to perform kinit but there's no user action required (except 
for maintaining the keytab, of course).

Standa