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Document Kerberos support limitations PYTHON-465
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behackett committed Feb 26, 2013
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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
GSSAPI (Kerberos) authentication is available in the subscriber edition of
MongoDB, version 2.4 and newer. To authenticate using GSSAPI you must first
install the python `kerberos module`_ using easy_install or pip. Make sure
you run kinit before using the following authentication methods::
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>>> db.authenticate('mongodbuser@EXAMPLE.COM', mechanism='GSSAPI')
True

.. note::
Kerberos support is only provided in environments supported by the python
`kerberos module`_. This currently limits support to CPython 2.x and Unix
environments.

.. _kerberos module: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/kerberos

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