Re: Alternate authentication

2009-06-18 Thread Daniel Jewett
Thanks Ben, I'll see if I can figure out how to put the class together. On Jun 17, 5:20 pm, Ben Davis wrote: > I believe what you are looking for is a custom authentication backend.  I > had to do this for one of my sites that used an XMLRPC api to authenticate > against a

Re: Alternate authentication

2009-06-17 Thread Ben Davis
I believe what you are looking for is a custom authentication backend. I had to do this for one of my sites that used an XMLRPC api to authenticate against a remote server. You'll want to create a class that extends django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend , and add it to the

Alternate authentication

2009-06-16 Thread Daniel Jewett
I have a circumstance that requires me to use an alternative authentication scenario. The authentication to our school's web site/ services is handled by the the hosting service. (There is some sort of syncing that occurs with our local Active Directory database.) I'm installing some Django apps