MIT kadm5 client Perl extension
Andrew J. Korty
ajk at waterspout.com
Tue May 14 13:14:19 EDT 2002
Sam Hartman <hartmans at mit.edu> writes:
>>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew J Korty <ajk at waterspout.com> writes:
>
> Andrew> I've written a Perl XS module interface to the MIT
> Andrew> kadm5clnt library. Working as a companion to
> Andrew> Authen::Krb5, it currently supports authenticating to
> Andrew> kadmin using a password or cached credentials, most of the
> Andrew> principal modification commands, and policies. It doesn't
> Andrew> support keysalt tuples yet.
>
> I'm very interested in this as an individual; here I don't speak for
> the Kerberos team.
When I get it packaged up, I'll let you see. If you're a more
seasoned XS programmer (likely!), maybe you can find all the bugs. :-)
> I'm a bit curious how you should deal with the need for k5-int.h. I'd
> love to package this up for Debian and to be able to point random
> people at it. However I'd need to find a work around for that
> problem. I realize it's MIT's problem not yours, but it really does
> need to get dealt with.
My approach is pretty sloppy--I just package my own header file,
containing only what I need, with the Perl module. It also contains
stuff from admin.h, which is not installed by default.
--
Andrew J. Korty
Waterspout Communications
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