[PATCH] Add delegation support, a Pythonic API, and remove base64

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daniel@… originally submitted this as ticket:481

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The combination of these allow the creation of e.g. web interfaces that connect to other services on behalf of the user.

The delegation is to allow for services acting on behalf of the user.

Removing the previously forced base64 makes it possible to use as an authenticator in other Python modules, for instance imaplib.IMAP4.

The Pythonic API means a GSSAPI-authenticated IMAP instantiation looks like:

imap = imaplib.IMAP4('mail.example.com', 143)
imap.authenticate('GSSAPI', kerberos.GSSAPIClient('imap@mail.example.com', username='username', do_base64=False))

which IMHO looks a lot nicer than what is presently needed.

[macosforgebot]

daniel@… originally submitted this as attachment:pykerberos-everything.patch:⁠ticket:481

• Attachment pykerberos-everything.patch (34.6 KB) added

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Patch implementing the above

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@wsanchez originally submitted this as comment:4:⁠ticket:481

• Priority changed from 5: Not set to 3: Important
• Milestone set to Later

[macosforgebot]

@wsanchez originally submitted this as comment:5:⁠ticket:481

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See ticket #⁠847 prior to proceeding.

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@wsanchez originally submitted this as comment:6:⁠ticket:481

• Status changed from new to closed
• Resolution set to Not to be fixed

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Trying to be more active here now, but this patch no longer applies, and is too big to tease out each thing that was done.

Best to do one thing at a time.

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@wsanchez originally submitted this as comment:7:⁠ticket:481

• Status changed from closed to reopened
• Resolution Not to be fixed deleted

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Actually, reopening for reference…