I have a bunch of users in a UNIX kerberos environment. They already have valid kerberos credentials. On the basis of these they can ssh from host to host and use other single-sign-on services without ever having to re-enter their username and password.

Now I'd like to write a network service and accompanying command line client so that properly authorized users could remotely kick off some actions.

I'd like to be able to authenticate the remote users based on their existing Kerberos credentials, which I believe is way more secure than asking for their username and password again, and somehow getting it across the network securely.

Does anyone know how I can write a kerberos-aware client and server in Perl? I can't find anything appropriate on CPAN...

Cheers, Andrew

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