On 21 Aug., 13:44, "Emily Rodgers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: django-users@googlegroups.com
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of PeteDK
> > Sent: 21 August 2008 11:14
> > To: Django users
> > Subject: Re: how to locate the OS currently logged in user??
>
> > > Have you tested the suggestion above with someone who is not sshed
> > > into the box, because if it is just the remote user of the app you
> > > want, you really don't want to be doing '/usr/bin/ who'
> > because that
> > > will return the users sshed onto the box (and *not* the
> > users logged
> > > into the web app via your authentication system!).
>
> > > I am basically doing what you are (authenticating against
> > LDAP), and
> > > the way you can access the remote user is
> > request.META['AUTHENTICATE_UID'].
> > > I am not even using the django auth.User stuff for basic
> > web app usage
> > > (since the user must be authenticated already, I just look
> > to see who
> > > they are), only for the admin stuff. Only a very small number of
> > > people will be using the admin site so I am not to bothered
> > about them
> > > having to log in again (although if there is an easy way of passing
> > > credentials across I could use that!).
>
> > > HTH,
> > > Emily
>
> > Hey. I haven't had a chance of testing it yet but it sounds
> > like your method is the one i am looking for :) The thing is,
> > i am not very good with server stuff (i am sure you have
> > figured this out already) ;-) But as i wrote in my last post.
> > The user logs onto the server using the username and password
> > stored in the active directory. This is required before they
> > can access anything on the server.
>
> > After they pass the login they are redirected to my django
> > app, where i would like to avoid having them to log in again.
> > so all i really need is the username of the user logging in
> > to the server, so that i can (in the background) log them in
> > to the django app.
>
> > When it comes to the admin part of my django app they will
> > have to use a separate username and password. This is not a
> > problem however since this will be 2 or 3 users at the most.
>
> > I hope this made it more clear? :-)
>
> > but Emily??
> > Do you think your method will work on debian linux, and do i
> > need to import something extra in order to get it to work?
>
> I am not very technical either, so I am not entirely sure, but it doesn't
> sound like an OS thing, it sounds like a webserver configuration thing. If
> you have used PHP with apache before it is lke doing
> $_SERVER['REMOTE_USER'].
>
> When you say "The user logs onto the server", do you mean that users point
> their browser at a url and a username / password box pops up saying
> something like "A user name and password are being requested
> byhttp://blah.com.";?
>
> If the box is set up so that you have to authenticate to view the web pages,
> then I would imagine it will work. The webserver will know who the remote
> user is because they have authenticated (otherwise they would not be allowed
> on), so it is just a matter of accessing this, and the data will be
> somewhere in the request object. It is just a matter of finding it.
>
> I think what I did to figure out how to get the user, was something like
> logging.debug(vars(request.META)) (in my view), got a couple of people in my
> office a link to my webapp, and hunted around from there.
>
> To use logging.debug you need to do this:
>
> import logging
> logging.basicConfig(
> level = logging.DEBUG,
> format = '%(asctime)s %(levelname)s %(message)s',
> )
>
> If you are still stuck it is worth asking the person who set up the web
> server to give you more details about it, and find out how the django server
> is started (and let us know).
>
> Em :)
Thank you :-) I can't try it out monday, but if it doesn't work i will
let you all know :-)
thanks again!!
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