OLE/Automation of Leash, Kinit/klist

[Jeffrey Altman]

On 4/16/2010 2:29 PM, sal rashid wrote:
> Hi-
>
> I'm trying to find out if the windows kerberos clients support windows
> OLE/automation such that I can launch and interact with leash/kinit/klist,
> etc via vb/javascript.
>
> For example, in a vbscript if I wanted to launch internetexplorer an goto a
> website, I can create the app and invoke the navigate method:
> set IE= CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Applicaton")
> IE.navigate2 "http://www.google.com"
> IE.visible = True
>
> Similarly, I want to run klist,kvno,kinit and invoke methods, set/get
> properties, etc from within a vb/javascript.  Ofcourse I can launch those
> apps in a windows shell
> and scrape out the output after piping it to a file but it'd be much easier
> via automation.
>
> I did find the following but not sure if it applies:
> http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/kfw-3.2/kfw-3.2.2/relnotes.html#leashw32_api
>
>
> thanks!,
>
Sal:

There is no Kerberos COM api which is what you would be looking for. 
One can certainly be implemented but it does not presently exist.

Jeffrey Altman
Secure Endpoints, Inc.