Certificate authentication support about pywinrm HOT 2 CLOSED

@alexpilotti I did some work that a bit related to your request.

I've managed to get successful kerberos authentication with following schema:

• source host was Ubuntu Linux that connected to remote network with Windows domain over VPN
• target host was plain Windows host with enabled WinRM protocol but with disabled transport encryption

Right now for me main priority is to get transport encryption works according to WinRM protocol specification.

This is a bit tricky becase python-kerberos library does not expose such sort of API.

If you are interested in this topic you can track status here - #6 .

Unfortunately I don't have enough spare time to work on this task in near future.

OpenWSMAN may have passwordless authentication but I don't remember for sure - http://openwsman.github.io/

Anyway I would glad so see any references / sample code on this subject.

If you (or anyone else) would like to contribute please take into account one requirement - try to follow WinRM standard and functionality that Windows Servers has out for box.

I'm hoping that simple requirement is pretty reasonable.

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SSH public keys won't ever work with WinRM. You can use X509 certificates but really is quite finicky. There's not much we can do to solve this as this is a problem on the Windows service side only accepting certain authentication protocols.

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