pexpect with kadmin

[Barry Scott]

> On 23 Dec 2020, at 04:04, Joseph L. Casale <jcasale at activenetwerx.com> wrote:
> 
> Anyone ever used pexpect with tooling like kadmin and have
> insight into how to manage interacting with it?
> 
> After setting up debug logging, I was able to adjust the expect
> usage to get the input and output logs to at least appear correct
> when setting a password for a principal, however even with a
> successful return code from kadmin, there is some discrepancy
> and the credential is not being set right.
> 
> When run manually, the credentials work fine, it's almost as if
> kadmin is swallowing the newline from pexpect within the password.
> 
> I am using python 3.5 from Windows, over plink.exe, onto a rhel
> 7 server. Unfortunately, I am stuck with all the levels of indirection.

If you have windows 10 can you use Windows Subsystem for Linux  (WSL)
to install one of the Linux distros and use that?

Barry

> 
> Thanks,
> jlc
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