Re: REMOTE_USER authentication to 'Admin'?

It's all right here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/howto/auth-remote-user/ and other details in the mailing list thread you are reading/posting to (this one!) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To view this discussion on

Re: REMOTE_USER authentication to 'Admin'?

HI I just like to know how to login to the django admin using remote data (wherever it may be from) On Jun 28, 1:28 am, Jeff Blaine wrote: > Sorry, I have no knowledge of Oracle SSO, what it allows, how it works, etc. -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: REMOTE_USER authentication to 'Admin'?

Sorry, I have no knowledge of Oracle SSO, what it allows, how it works, etc. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/kFeKEvDSqZYJ. To post to this

Re: REMOTE_USER authentication to 'Admin'?

Hi I have a problem in my application, we are implementing oracle single sign on to our existing django application, I managed to implement SSO for the application, but I can able use the same information to login into Django admin. I like to know how to use the SSO login User information to log

Re: REMOTE_USER authentication to 'Admin'?

Thanks Jacob and Ramiro. I finally figured it out, and unfortunately it was, of course, something stupid :( I had changed the directory name holding my WSGI app and had not changed the Apache config's path reference in *both* places (ScriptAlias and Directory). SIGH. That was causing the

Re: REMOTE_USER authentication to 'Admin'?

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Jeff Blaine wrote: > I'm kind of at the point where I consider this a bug in some fashion, > regardless > of my specific problem (which persists). Well the auth application has a rather large set of tests that exercises both creating,

Re: REMOTE_USER authentication to 'Admin'?

I'm kind of at the point where I consider this a bug in some fashion, regardless of my specific problem (which persists). AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = ( 'mybackends.MyRemoteUserBackend', ) If I define AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS in settings, no default fallen back on. If my hand-specified stuff

Re: REMOTE_USER authentication to 'Admin'?

I'm failing so far. I copied backends.py to my project root as mybackends.py I edited it and renamed ModelBackend to MyModelBackend I changed RemoteUserBackend(ModelBackend) to MyRemoteUserBackend(MyModelBackend) I changed settings.py to: AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (

Re: REMOTE_USER authentication to 'Admin'?

Also, FWIW, the REMOTE_USER is definitely getting set to 'jblaine' 1xx.xx.xx.231 - jblaine [17/May/2011:16:12:41 -0400] "GET /static/admin/img/admin/nav-bg.gif HTTP/1.1" 200 273 "http://rcf-hostdb.our.org/admin/; "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2;

Re: REMOTE_USER authentication to 'Admin'?

On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 3:10:03 PM UTC-4, Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote: > > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Jeff Blaine wrote: > > That gets us somewhere, because authenticating to Apache/LDAP as jblaine > > did NOT make a Django user jblaine. > > That's interesting - perhaps LDAP

Re: REMOTE_USER authentication to 'Admin'?

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Jeff Blaine wrote: > That gets us somewhere, because authenticating to Apache/LDAP as jblaine > did NOT make a Django user jblaine. That's interesting - perhaps LDAP is reporting a different username? You could check in the auth_user table to

Re: REMOTE_USER authentication to 'Admin'?

[ *sigh* - I wish the web UI to google groups had an 80-column marker. ] [ Sorry for the formatting in the previous message. I'm used to hitting ] [ enter. ] Thanks for the reply, Jacob. That gets us somewhere, because authenticating to Apache/LDAP as jblaine did NOT make a Django user jblaine.

Re: REMOTE_USER authentication to 'Admin'?

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Jeff Blaine wrote: > Hi folks, > I'm successfully using Apache with mod_authnz_ldap, WSGI, Django 1.3.  If I > hit > '/admin', I get asked to authenticate (BasicAuth done through LDAP).  I > succeed. > However, this just results in me then

REMOTE_USER authentication to 'Admin'?

Hi folks, I'm successfully using Apache with mod_authnz_ldap, WSGI, Django 1.3. If I hit '/admin', I get asked to authenticate (BasicAuth done through LDAP). I succeed. However, this just results in me then seeing the Django admin login screen instead of logging me in to Admin. What am I