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An authentication handler for using Kerberos with Python Requests.
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is it a dead project #160

Closed bioinfornatics closed 3 years ago

bioinfornatics commented 3 years ago

Dear,

Firstly thanks for this library, we would like to know if this project is still alive indeed it seem that the latest commit is from 3 years ago. Indeed before to start to use a such important piece of authentication we need to know if is project is still maintained.

Thanks

Best regards

jborean93 commented 3 years ago

While I have commit access to this library it’s mostly just for critical bugfixes that may impact applications (that I need to support) that use this library. These thoughts are my own personal view of this library and other maintainers may have different thoughts.

IMO you should avoid this library for any new software in favour of libs like https://github.com/pythongssapi/requests-gssapi (Linux) or https://github.com/brandond/requests-negotiate-sspi (Windows). These libraries use more modern libraries to call the C functions and are preferable to pykerberos (what this library uses).

You are free to continue using this library as it works for the basic Kerberos auth scenario but it doesn’t support all use cases.

bioinfornatics commented 3 years ago

Thanks @jborean93
have a good day