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Architecture

Gala is comprised of five elements:

• The GUI
• pymacad
• KerbMinder
• ADPassmon
• ShareMounter

These elements have each an history of their own. As they share a lot of code, we decided to regroup them.

PyMacAd

PyMacAd is the common module. It is written in Python + Objective-C (PyObjc). When possible, it uses Apple Public APIs, otherwise it uses the command-line tools. To maintain forward compatibility, we decided not to use Apple’s Private APIs.

It has different submodules:

• ad - for Active Directory (and Open Directory).
• kerberos - to initialize, renew and destroy Kerberos tickets.
• keychain - to create and delete entries in the Keychain.

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