Esentially, there are two different sources of GSSAPI-Python bindings:
- PyGSSAPI (on Sourceforge). This is old, and unmaintained. It's written in SWIG, but the SWIG source won't compile in recent SWIGs, and the provided C source won't work with current Python
- PyKerberos (part of Apple's CalDav server). This is a simple solution, but only provides access to an interface designed to do Negotiate-Auth. The interface isn't object oriented, nor will it garbage collect properly.
In order to get PunJab doing what I needed, the quickest route seemed to be to add SASL support to the PyKerberos library, so I did so. This solution isn't particularly clean, nor does it interface well with situations where you're trying to do anything other than perform a SASL handshake using credentials acquired in a previous NegotiateAuth transaction.
Other local projects required a way to do normal GSSAPI SASL from Python, and I really wanted to tidy up the PunJab code,so I ended up breaking and implementing my own Python bindings. Whilst not yet complete, these currently provide enough functionality to implement a GSSAPI SASL layer for the Twisted Jabber library, which solves our immediate local issue.
Once I've finished documenting the library, I'll package it up and announce it more widely.
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check out http://www.desy.de/~kahnert/python-gssapi/
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