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Add Kerberos specific GSS-API Extensions #261

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Adds some of the Kerberos specific GSS-API extension methods. These
methods are useful when migrating from the Kerberos API to GSS-API or
when needing Kerberos specific functionality that is not exposed in
GSS-API.

Partially fixes #75

Signed-off-by: Jordan Borean jborean93@gmail.com

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Some initial thoughts.

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cls.KRB5_LIB_PATH = cls._get_krb5_lib_path()

@classmethod
def _get_krb5_lib_path(cls) -> str:
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Yeah, this is just giving us your "find the right krb5" problem in the test suite. This won't work right if: libgssapi is statically built, the correct krb5-config isn't first in PATH (e.g. freeBSD), etc..

At the very least, all users of this need to gracefully handle when krb5 isn't found. More generally, testing krb5_import_cred() may just be more trouble than it's worth - right now I'm more inclined to skip it with a note.

Another thought is gss_krb5_copy_ccache() - you elected not to implement this, but I think if you did, we could just treat krb5_ccache as an opaque pointer and test the two function as a unit.

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Yea I couldn't figure out a way to avoid this. I thought at least having it tested in CI is better than no tests at all but if you prefer not to have this logic and just skip that is ok.

Another thought is to just read the value from an env var and skip it if it's not defined. This can allow the test suite to run normally without these tests locally and CI can have it set as we would know the correct paths beforehand. What do you think of that?

Another thought is gss_krb5_copy_ccache() - you elected not to implement this, but I think if you did, we could just treat krb5_ccache as an opaque pointer and test the two function as a unit.

Unfortunately that doesn't help and it has the same problem. gss_krb5_copy_ccache() takes in a pointer to the ccache and it doesn't set the pointer on return so it would also need this same logic to open the ccache using something like ctypes.

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Oh, good point about gss_krb5_copy_ccache(). Will think about the rest.

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I'll set the env var as it is definitely safer and at least keeps the tests running in CI. If you think of another way or want to do something different then let me know.

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The latest commit adds this and sets the env var in the distro specific section of ci/lib-setup.sh.

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Adds most of the Kerberos specific GSS-API extension methods.  These
methods are useful when migrating from the Kerberos API to GSS-API or
when needing Kerberos specific functionality that is not exposed in
GSS-API.

Signed-off-by: Jordan Borean <jborean93@gmail.com>
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Thanks for the review!

@jborean93 jborean93 deleted the krb5-apis branch August 10, 2021 18:58
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