using Kerberos to authenticate to Active Directory from python ldap

[Olivier Sessink]

2009/4/10 Geert Jansen <geert at boskant.nl>:
> As a related solution, you could have a look at python-ad [1].
> Python-AD is built on top of python-ldap and provides lots of
> functionality that you normally need to connect to AD built in. For
> example, service discovery, credential management and multi-domain
> functionality. There's a few examples on the site, including how to
> use Kerberos credentials with AD.

I noticed that there is some C code related to Kerberos in python-ad.
Is this code required to initialize a kerberos authentication, or is
this just to change passwords and things like that?

thanks,

  Olivier