From: Randall S. Becker <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2017 16:20:45 GMT
Subject: RE: How do you script linux GIT client to pass kerberos credential to apache enabled GIT server?
Message-ID: <002501d2ac96$42a272a0$c7e757e0$@nexbridge.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAAqgmoP2uyd5_k-JDOBpBV8ay6BueUvKkwcWAZ_C1n4=4xpECg@mail.gmail.com>

-----Original Message-----
On April 3, 2017 12:04 PM, Ken Edward Wrote:
>I have my git repositories behind an apache server configured with kerberos. Works fine if the user is logged in on their workstation.
>Apache gets the kerberos credential, and validates, and  then sends the GIT repo being requested.
>BUT, I want to write a script on linux that will also pass the kerberos credential to the apache GIT server without having any manually intervention. Seems I would create a kerberos keytab for the principal and then use that to >authenticate.... kinit supports authenticating from a keytab using the -k -t <keytab-path> options, but has anyone done this?

Have you attempted prototyping this using curl? It might be able to help out a bit. I have done this in the past with Stash and their REST and credentials, but not using Kerberos. Just a thought.
Cheers,

Randall