Work-around to get kerberos auth working with python-jira

jira-kerberos-workaround.py

"""
Requires pykerberos, NOT kerberos!

Make sure you have the right kerb package installed. If 'kerberos' was installed it needs to be
removed and pykerberos re-installed.
"""

from jira import JIRA as JiraClient


class JiraClientOverride(JiraClient):
    def _create_kerberos_session(self, *args, **kwargs):
        """
        Little hack to get auth cookies from JIRA when using kerberos, otherwise
        queries to other URLs hit a 401 and are not handled properly for some
        reason

        https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21578699/jira-rest-api-and-kerberos-authentication
        """
        super(JiraClientOverride, self)._create_kerberos_session(*args, **kwargs)
        self._session.get("{}/step-auth-gss".format(self._options['server']))

        
j = JiraClientOverride("https://myjira.com", kerberos=True, kerberos_options={'mutual_authentication': "DISABLED"})
j.search_issues("assignee = currentUser()")