From c7dcbcaaad8e144b450d1716518e6e0393ca367f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon Clark Date: Apr 23 2018 20:26:44 +0000 Subject: Add #91 'Kerberos in Python modernization' --- diff --git a/en-US/developers/Development_Python.adoc b/en-US/developers/Development_Python.adoc index 1190e97..87078fd 100644 --- a/en-US/developers/Development_Python.adoc +++ b/en-US/developers/Development_Python.adoc @@ -3,3 +3,16 @@ include::en-US/entities.adoc[] [[sect-python]] = Python + +[[sect-python-kerberos]] +== Kerberos in Python Modernization + +There is https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/kerberos-in-python-modernization[an ongoing project] to replace `python-krbV` and `pykerberos` with `python-gssapi` in all Fedora packages. +`python-gssapi` uses the GSSAPI interface, which is widely standardized, implemented by both MIT and Heimdal Kerberos, and much more user-friendly. + +None of the packages has been removed in Fedora 28 but the following packages should be considered as deprecated: + +* python{2,}-kerberos +* python2-krbV +* python-urllib2_kerberos +* python{2,}-requests-kerberos