GSSAPI Console allows provides an easy way to test out Python applications using GSSAPI in a self-contained environment.
By default, the console will set up a self-contained MIT krb5 environment. However, other GSSAPI environments are planned.
gssapi-console will not work without first being installed. If you are
working from a local checkout, it suffices to do pip install -e . .
.
further information is available by running gssapi-console.py --help
The main executable of GSSAPI Console is gssapi-console.py
. The basic
invocation works just like launching python
-- use gssapi-console.py FILE
to run a file in the established environment, or just run gssapi-console.py
or gssapi-console.py -i
to get an interactive environment (the -i
flag
can be used with a file, just like python FILE -i
).
There are several additional flags that may be passed to gssapi-console.py
:
--realm-args key1=true,key2=false,...
can be used to pass specific arguments
to the realm constructor (the set of such keys is driver-dependent)--mech MECH_NAME
can be used to specify a different driver (currently, only
--mech krb5
will work)-a IDENTIFIER, --attach IDENTIFIER
may be used to "attach" a new GSSAPI Console
session to an environment set up by an existing GSSAPI Console session. The identifier
will be noted at the top of the existing GSSAPI Console session as Session: IDENTIFIER
.-v, --verbose
may be used to increase the verbosity of the logging level (generally to
gain more details on what the driver is doing to set up the realm).Additional GSSAPI Console drivers may be introduced using the gssapi_console.drivers
setuptools entry point. They should follow the gssapi_console.drivers.GSSAPIConsoleDriver
class.
GSSAPI Console provides a YALPT environment driver for
writing tutorials and literate python files involving GSSAPI. You can use it by passing
-e gssapi
to YALPT (it will use the default GSSAPI Console driver in this case).