has_credential¶

ciecplib.kerberos.has_credential(**store_kw)¶

Return True if an active Kerberos (GSSAPI) credential is available.

Parameters:

store_kw – Keyword arguments to pass to the credentials store extension of the underlying GSSAPI implementation. See https://pythongssapi.github.io/python-gssapi/credstore.html for more details.

Returns:

True – If a valid Kerberos credential is found with a lifetime of more than 1 second.
False – Otherwise.

Examples

>>> has_credential()
False
>>> has_credential(
...     ccache="mykrb5cc",
...     client_keytab="/home/user/.kerberos/me.keytab",
... )
True

Notes

This function will always return False if the requests-gssapi Kerberos Auth plugin required by requests-ecp is not found.