Description
In K5Realm's __init__
method, the use case of existing
is non-obvious (as it really does two things: the base directory location and whether or not to write new configuration).
If existing is not None
then it is treated as a base directory path and K5Realm.tmpdir
is updated with its contents and configuration is not written. On the other hand, if existing is None
, then K5Realm.tmpdir
receives a newly created temporary directory, and later governs the creation of the configuration.
It seems like existing
should be a boolean parameter, with tmpdir
being renamed to basedir
and accepted as an additional argument in __init__
. This would allow K5Realm to be used to create krb5 deployments in determanistic locations. However, this is a breaking change.
Looking for public usages of existing
being not-None
, the only one I can find is in
gssapi-console, which could be updated as it is part of the pythongssapi
org.