[python-win32] Kerberos Authentication

2009-02-03 Thread Aditya Jayraman
I am trying to create server that needs to authenticate clients using Kerberos. Assuming the clients are presenting a Kerberos Service Ticket to the Server, I need a way to: 1. Unpack the ticket 2. Decrypt the encrypted part and recover the Session Key. (Assuming I have have access to my Server's

Re: [python-win32] Unexpected feature in win32security?

2009-02-03 Thread Tim Golden
Roger Upole wrote: Thanks very much for responding to this, Roger. 1) Not there 2) There but NULL 3) There and a (possibly empty) list of ACEs In practice, cases 1 and 2 are functionally identical . Once a security descriptor has been applied to an object, the SE_DACL_PRESENT flag is always

[python-win32] Unexpected feature in win32security?

2009-02-03 Thread Roger Upole
Tim Golden wrote: I *think* this is a bug (or at least an unfortunate effect) but I'll post here first for a sanity check. I'm looking at Windows security: descriptors, ACLs, etc. The conventional wisdom is that a DACL (or an SACL but less commonly) can be one of three things within a security d

[python-win32] Unexpected feature in win32security?

2009-02-03 Thread Tim Golden
I *think* this is a bug (or at least an unfortunate effect) but I'll post here first for a sanity check. I'm looking at Windows security: descriptors, ACLs, etc. The conventional wisdom is that a DACL (or an SACL but less commonly) can be one of three things within a security descriptor: 1) Not