Re: Use django auth system with ruby on rails

CAS sounds very interesting as a SSO. I may give that a try, as well as maybe just perform some unit tests just to make sure I know what is going on under the hood. Thank you all for your much needed input. Greg On Feb 19, 10:32 am, Phlip wrote: > geraldcor wrote: > > and

Re: Use django auth system with ruby on rails

geraldcor wrote: > and all will be good - I think. Does that sound reasonable? Been there done that. But... >     using the given algorithm ('md5', 'sha1' or 'crypt'). ^ Pick the right one wisely! I would start with unit tests that

Re: Use django auth system with ruby on rails

On Feb 19, 2:15 am, geraldcor wrote: > All of your comments prompted me to start reverse engineering what > django does and I came across the check_password method which just > separates the algorithm, salt and hash and then sends it to the > following method to compare the

Re: Use django auth system with ruby on rails

All of your comments prompted me to start reverse engineering what django does and I came across the check_password method which just separates the algorithm, salt and hash and then sends it to the following method to compare the raw password to the hash password. So basically, in Ruby, I can do

Re: Use django auth system with ruby on rails

You could have a secure url that the RoR apps redirect to if the user isn't authenticated with Rails. That url would have the login_required decorator. If they successfully login on the django side (or are already logged in), then they get redirected with some sort of get variable user id + hash

Re: Use django auth system with ruby on rails

how about the RoR site serve authentications to the Django site over Oauth? unless if, as Tim's answer suggests, users don't want to log in twice? and shouldn't the salt and hash pattern appear inside the auth contrib? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: Use django auth system with ruby on rails

Is it possible to transfer the valid session from Django to RoR? I'm not really sure if that makes sense, but it's what comes to mind. Basically, if you have already authenticated on one framework you should be able to pass along the authentication without having to copy the password over. FWIW

Use django auth system with ruby on rails

Hello all, Internally, we have some RoR apps and Django apps. Our main website runs on Django and is considered to be the main portal for all other apps. Currently, we have a Rails authentication system and a Django authentication system. We want to have one user table to authorize against. The