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Add WinKerberos-specific blurb for custom principal.
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applicable). However, an explicit principal can be specified, which will
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cause Kerberos to look for a matching credential cache for the named user.
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This feature depends on OS support for collection-type credential caches,
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as well as working principal support in pykerberos (it is broken in many
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as well as working principal support in PyKerberos (it is broken in many
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builds). An explicit principal can be specified with the ``principal`` arg:
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.. code-block:: python
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>>> r = requests.get("http://example.org", auth=kerberos_auth)
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On Windows, WinKerberos is used instead of PyKerberos. WinKerberos allows the
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use of arbitrary principals instead of a credential cache. Passwords can be
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specified by following the form ``user@realm:password`` for ``principal``.
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