Re: Using REMOTE_USER to authenticate in reviewboard

2016-07-29 Thread Abhishek Choudhary 
Hi,

Wierdly, I tried following approach and it worked:

-copied MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES from settings.py and added 
django.contrib.auth.middleware.RemoteUserMiddleware 
after AuthenticationMiddleware in settings.py
-Went to admin account using username and password that was created at 
rb-site installation and edited Authentication method to Legacy 
Authentication Module and in backends I gave full path of my custom auth 
backend that inherits from RemoteUserBackend

After this It started respecting REMOTE_USER and logged users automatically 
and I was able to create new review requests and had access to dashboard.

Let me know if there is anything wrong with this approach and If I should 
do this some other way.

Thanks,
Abhi

On Friday, July 29, 2016 at 3:38:47 AM UTC+5:30, Christian Hammond wrote:
>
> Hi Abhi,
>
> The authenticate() method is needed for the login page, which will require 
> a password. If you just never use that page, you won't have to worry about 
> using those parameters as-is (see X509AuthBackend and X509AuthMiddleware).
>
> What kind of problems are you hitting, specifically? Any errors?
>
> For the record, your auth backend will need to be a subclass of our 
> AuthBackend class. You can use multiple inheritance for this, though. We 
> have more specialized needs than what Django provides by default, so just 
> dropping in a subclass of RemoteUserBackend without complying with 
> AuthBackend won't work.
>
> Christian
>
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> Christian Hammond
> President/CEO of Beanbag 
> Makers of Review Board 
>
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 5:46 AM, Abhishek Choudhary  > wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to use REMOTE_USER set by Apache to authenticate users in 
>> ReviewBoard. I have tried adding RemoteUserMiddleware in MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES 
>> and my custom auth backend which extends django's RemoteUserBackend 
>> in AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS in settings_local.py. But the authentication is 
>> not working. 
>>
>> I looked at 
>> https://www.reviewboard.org/docs/manual/2.5/extending/extensions/hooks/auth-backend-hook/#auth-backend-hook
>>  
>> but it requires that I provide a subclass of 
>> reviewboard.accounts.backends.AuthBackend 
>> 
>>  
>> whose authenticate method takes username and password as arguments. But i 
>> don't have password corresponding to the username.
>>
>> Could you someone help me with this? Has anyone tried using this with 
>> ReviewBoard v2.5.x?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Abhi
>>
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Re: Using REMOTE_USER to authenticate in reviewboard

2016-07-28 Thread Christian Hammond 
Hi Abhi,

The authenticate() method is needed for the login page, which will require
a password. If you just never use that page, you won't have to worry about
using those parameters as-is (see X509AuthBackend and X509AuthMiddleware).

What kind of problems are you hitting, specifically? Any errors?

For the record, your auth backend will need to be a subclass of our
AuthBackend class. You can use multiple inheritance for this, though. We
have more specialized needs than what Django provides by default, so just
dropping in a subclass of RemoteUserBackend without complying with
AuthBackend won't work.

Christian

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President/CEO of Beanbag 
Makers of Review Board 

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 5:46 AM, Abhishek Choudhary 
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to use REMOTE_USER set by Apache to authenticate users in
> ReviewBoard. I have tried adding RemoteUserMiddleware in MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES
> and my custom auth backend which extends django's RemoteUserBackend
> in AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS in settings_local.py. But the authentication is
> not working.
>
> I looked at
> https://www.reviewboard.org/docs/manual/2.5/extending/extensions/hooks/auth-backend-hook/#auth-backend-hook
> but it requires that I provide a subclass of
> reviewboard.accounts.backends.AuthBackend
> 
> whose authenticate method takes username and password as arguments. But i
> don't have password corresponding to the username.
>
> Could you someone help me with this? Has anyone tried using this with
> ReviewBoard v2.5.x?
>
> Thanks,
> Abhi
>
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> https://www.reviewboard.org/powerpack/
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Using REMOTE_USER to authenticate in reviewboard

2016-07-27 Thread Abhishek Choudhary 
Hi,

I would like to use REMOTE_USER set by Apache to authenticate users in 
ReviewBoard. I have tried adding RemoteUserMiddleware in MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES 
and my custom auth backend which extends django's RemoteUserBackend 
in AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS in settings_local.py. But the authentication is 
not working. 

I looked at 
https://www.reviewboard.org/docs/manual/2.5/extending/extensions/hooks/auth-backend-hook/#auth-backend-hook
 
but it requires that I provide a subclass of 
reviewboard.accounts.backends.AuthBackend 

 
whose authenticate method takes username and password as arguments. But i 
don't have password corresponding to the username.

Could you someone help me with this? Has anyone tried using this with 
ReviewBoard v2.5.x?

Thanks,
Abhi

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