Hi all, can't believe I missed this entire thread because googlegroups didn't auto-subscribe me to replies. thanks for the tips.
For the curious, I'm using Mozilla Persona. Detailed info here: http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000000754/ch14.html On Monday, 21 October 2013 15:22:07 UTC+1, Xavier Ordoquy wrote: > > Hi, > > Le 21 oct. 2013 à 16:04, Tino de Bruijn <[email protected] <javascript:>> > a écrit : > > Harry's use case is an interesting one -- his authentication is being done >> entirely by an external process, so there's no need for a password field. >> Yes, he could just have the password and last_login fields and not use it, >> but why should he need to carry around he extra weight when Django doesn't >> need it. >> > > @Harry, just out of curiosity, may I ask how you *do* authenticate your > users? > > > I can't speak for Harry but using the RemoteUserBackend you don't need the > password nor the last_login for Django. > In my case Apache did the authentication through Kerberos. > Django's documentation explains more there: > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/auth-remote-user/ > > Regards, > Xavier, > Linovia. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/cfc893f6-0177-4e5d-ac30-1ca109e98971%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
