Hi All, At the Fedora Users and Developer Conference yesterday they announced a new remote maagement project that might be interesting to people following this thread.
You can find out more about it here: https://fedorahosted.org/func Best, Greg On Thu, January 10, 2008 10:59 pm, Marcus Watts wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > ... >> CV> -Is there any API interface (java, c,any other language) to >> CV> perform administrative operations? (add a principal, change a >> CV> password, delete a principal) >> >> >> CV> We must perform automatic provisioning via a web application >> (jsp) >> CV> so it seems to be not a good solution using the kadmin command >> via >> CV> System Calls. >> >> CV> The KDC is the MIT's one >> >> http://search.cpan.org/~korty/Authen-Krb5-Admin-0.09/Admin.pm >> >> CV> Thank you in advance. > > The perl module is probably the best available at present. > > Recent versions of MIT kerberos should also export a C callable > api for kadm5. With older versions of MIT this was also possible, > but required extracting bits from built source for MIT k5. > If you feel like experimenting, this may help, > http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/krbdev/2007-March/005702.html > > There are also possibilities with java. I've got a java library > that will do this, which I hope to make generally available shortly. > It's undergoing review and final feature development right now. It uses > jni and calls into gssrpc. A future version could be pure java, but > that wasn't feasible right off. > > If you want a different java answer - opensolaris has a java library built > into its source. It uses jni and calls into kadm5. Note CDDL licensing. > Here's how to fetch a copy, > > do this, > < find a filesystem with lots of space on a machine with mercurial > > hg clone ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/hg/onnv/onnv-gate > then look here: > onnv-gate/usr/src/OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE > onnv-gate/usr/src/cmd/krb5/kadmin/gui/native/Kadmin.c > onnv-gate/usr/src/cmd/krb5/kadmin/gui/native/Kadmin.java > for more on solaris, > http://opensolaris.org/os/project/onnv/ > You will probably have to work out your own build procedure. > > We didn't go with that for various reasons, but maybe it > can meet your needs. > > -Marcus Watts > ________________________________________________ > Kerberos mailing list [email protected] > https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos > -- Greg Wallace Co-Founder and CEO Emu Software, Inc. Sponsor of the NetDirector Open Management Console Project www.netdirector.org o: 617.830.1835 m: 919.247.3165 skype: gregwallaceemu ________________________________________________ Kerberos mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos
