Colors of Noise

The simple DBus interface has finally landed in GNOME's SVN. This allows your application to acquire a Kerberos Ticket Granting Ticket via a simple DBus call to krb5-auth-dialog:

    dbus-send --print-reply --type=method_call \
           --dest=org.gnome.KrbAuthDialog \
           /org/gnome/KrbAuthDialog \
           org.gnome.KrbAuthDialog.acquireTgt \
           string:'your_principal'

If there's a valid TGT already available the call will simply return, otherwise it'll spawn the dialog to prompt for the password.

There are patches for offlineimap and virt-manager to use this interface and a new krb5-auth-dialog has already been uploaded to Debian's unstable distribution.