the --auth command line option that permits switching between standard auth and kerberos auth has no automated tests At the very least, setting it to "pulp" could be tested (kerberos is harder due to the extra infrastructure needed).
Marking all remaining PulpDist issues as CLOSED-EOL It doesn't make sense to leave these issues open, as PulpDist hasn't been in active development for quite some time, and restarting development would involve a significant modernisation effort that would likely render many of these requests irrelevant.