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Document Kerberos support limitations PYTHON-465
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How do I use Kerberos authentication with PyMongo?
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GSSAPI (Kerberos) authentication is available in the subscriber addition of
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GSSAPI (Kerberos) authentication is available in the subscriber edition of
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MongoDB, version 2.4 and newer. To authenticate using GSSAPI you must first
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install the python `kerberos module`_ using easy_install or pip. Make sure
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you run kinit before using the following authentication methods::
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>>> db.authenticate('[email protected]', mechanism='GSSAPI')
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.. note::
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Kerberos support is only provided in environments supported by the python
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`kerberos module`_. This currently limits support to CPython 2.x and Unix
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environments.
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.. _kerberos module: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/kerberos

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