vdk-kerberos-auth 0.1.449393937

Versatile Data Kit SDK plugin adds Kerberos/GSSAPI support.

The plugin provides GSSAPI Kerberos authentication on data job startup. The plugin also adds Kerberos/GSSAPI support for HTTP requests.

Usage

To install the plugin, run:

pip install vdk-kerberos-auth

The plugin dependency requests-kerberos==0.12.0 may fail to install on Ubuntu with the following error:

  src/kerberosbasic.h:17:10: fatal error: gssapi/gssapi.h: No such file or directory
     17 | #include <gssapi/gssapi.h>
        |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  compilation terminated.

If this is the case, install libkrb5-dev with the command below and try reinstalling the plugin:

sudo apt-get install -y libkrb5-dev

The following environment variables can be used to configure this plugin:

name	description
VDK_KRB_AUTH	Specifies the Kerberos authentication type to use. Possible values are 'minikerberos' and 'kinit'. If left empty, the authentication is disabled.
VDK_KEYTAB_FILENAME	Specifies the name of the keytab file. If left empty, the name of the keytab file is assumed to be the same as the name of the data job with '.keytab' suffix.
KEYTAB_FOLDER	Specifies the folder containing the keytab file. If left empty, the keytab file is expected to be located inside the data job folder.
VDK_KEYTAB_PRINCIPAL	Specifies the Kerberos principal. If left empty, the principal will be the job name prepended with 'pa__view_'.
VDK_KEYTAB_REALM	Specifies the Kerberos realm. This value is used only with the 'minikerberos' authentication type. The default value is 'default_realm'.
VDK_KERBEROS_KDC_HOST	Specifies the name of the Kerberos KDC (Key Distribution Center) host. This value is used only with the 'minikerberos' authentication type.