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Add WinKerberos-specific blurb for custom principal.

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Carson Lam 2016-11-01 17:12:54 -07:00
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@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ whom you last ran ``kinit`` or ``kswitch``, or an SSO credential if
applicable). However, an explicit principal can be specified, which will
cause Kerberos to look for a matching credential cache for the named user.
This feature depends on OS support for collection-type credential caches,
as well as working principal support in pykerberos (it is broken in many
as well as working principal support in PyKerberos (it is broken in many
builds). An explicit principal can be specified with the ``principal`` arg:
.. code-block:: python
@ -132,6 +132,10 @@ builds). An explicit principal can be specified with the ``principal`` arg:
>>> r = requests.get("http://example.org", auth=kerberos_auth)
...
On Windows, WinKerberos is used instead of PyKerberos. WinKerberos allows the
use of arbitrary principals instead of a credential cache. Passwords can be
specified by following the form ``user@realm:password`` for ``principal``.
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