Thought I’d post an answer here since in case anyone else ends up running into a similar issue. Turns out I am missing a piece of code that makes all the difference. I just needed to add session.setConfig(“PreferredAuthentications”, “publickey,keyboard-interactive,password”); before session.connect(); and everything works perfectly now.
SSL uses public key cryptography: You (or your browser) has a public/private keypair The server has a public/private key as well You generate a symmetric session key You encrypt with the server’s public key and send this encrypted session key to the server. The server decrypts the encrypted session key with its private key. You … Read more
It’s quite difficult to compare SSL/TLS and SASL, because SSL/TLS is a communication protocol, whereas SASL is a framework, integrated with other protocols. (In fact, you can use both at the same time in some circumstances.) In addition, you’re mentioning Kerberos, which is indeed an authentication protocol (which can be used with SSL/TLS or SASL … Read more
I would give the requests library a try for this. Essentially just a much easier to use wrapper around the standard library modules (i.e. urllib2, httplib2, etc.) you would use for the same thing. For example, to fetch json data from a url that requires basic authentication would look like this: import requests response = … Read more
I had this problem with an ASP.NET MVC app I was working on. I realized I had recently changed my password, and I was able to fix it by logging out and logging back in again.