Hello all,
I want to have an application settings modifying the project settings but
it doesn't seems to work.
For development purpose I need to authenticate users against my application
database. In Production
the authentication is done by Apache, it then sends the REMOTE_USER,
correctly.
To realize the authentication in production, i am using one middleware, and
one backend as found in
django documentation.
I would like to have only one setting in the project thesite/settings.py, a
boolean called EXTERNAL_AUTH,
controling the content of AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS and MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES.
The code modifying those two variables will stand in my application
my/settings.py, It would then look like this
from django.conf import settings
if settings.EXTERNAL_AUTH == False:
# Disabling standard login/logout.
settings.LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL='/'
settings.LOGIN_URL='/my/accounts/login/'
settings.LOGOUT_URL='/my/accounts/logout/'
else:
settings.AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
('my.backends.LDAPUserBackend', ) +
settings.AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS)
# Insert LDAPUserMiddleware right after AuthenticationMiddleware
index = settings.MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES.index(
"django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware")
settings.MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (settings.MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES[:index+1] +
('my.backends.LDAPUserMiddleware', ) +
settings.MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES[index+1:])
EXTERNAL_AUTH is used at different locations in my application, for example
I use it to decide whether or not
I display the "change password" link.
When I start testing, toggling EXTERNAL_AUTH, the behavior is fuzzy. It
inconsitently redirect me to the accounts/login
even if I'm authenticated through apache. I guess the middleware isn't
called but when I raise an error, the debug page
contradicts this.
I'm a bit lost. Do you have any hint?
Regards,
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