Re: auth.User refactor: reboot

2012-03-20 Thread william ratcliff
A bit of an odd question-- What practices have other packages adopted? For example, I was playing with ASP.NET last weekend to help out a friend and found their decoupling of authentication from the database to be rather pleasant. Is it possible to add a layer of indirection. In some sense, I

Re: #16779 - a tutorial for first time Django contributors

2012-11-11 Thread william ratcliff
I develop on windows, linux, and macos--for windows, I have to say that I tend to use tortoise-git (somehow, I still prefer it to github for windows), whereas for linux, the command line is greatFrom my experience leaping between platforms, it's rather painful to try to shoehorn the way of doin

Re: #16779 - a tutorial for first time Django contributors

2012-11-11 Thread william ratcliff
And I should say, thanks for the effort on this! On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 10:18 AM, william ratcliff < william.ratcl...@gmail.com> wrote: > I develop on windows, linux, and macos--for windows, I have to say that I > tend to use tortoise-git (somehow, I still prefer it to github f

Re: Pluggable encryption for django auth (design proposal)

2011-02-11 Thread William Ratcliff
Hi! I'm new to the list and have started to look into authentication. I find that I will need to patch it for my own needs, but would like to ask the opinions of others who are more familiar with the code-base than I am. I apologize if I make any mistakes in the protocol of the list in matte

Re: Pluggable encryption for django auth (design proposal)

2011-02-11 Thread william ratcliff
ty issues are olved by the use of a > "salt", salted hashes are known to be a very secure way to store data. > > > > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 3:59 AM, William Ratcliff < > william.ratcl...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi! I'm new to the list and have start

Re: Pluggable encryption for django auth (design proposal)

2011-02-11 Thread william ratcliff
rproject script). > > Of course I would very much welcome such a proposal, yet I just believe the > odds for it to happen are (very) low. > > Cheers, > > coh > > > On 02/11/2011 06:59 AM, William Ratcliff wrote: > > Hi! I'm new to the list and have started to l

Re: Pluggable encryption for django auth (design proposal)

2011-02-13 Thread william ratcliff
Excellent summary! If the core developers agree to this, I'm happy to contribute. William On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 1:37 AM, poswald wrote: > Here is an overview of issues on this subject opened over the years. > Some have existing code: > > http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/3316 (Adding `cry

Re: Pluggable encryption for django auth (design proposal)

2011-02-14 Thread william ratcliff
Carl and Russ, Thanks for the response! Would you prefer that those of us interested in working on this (pluggable user cryto-system) proceed from the trunk, or from 1.2? Thanks, William On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 2:03 AM, Russell Keith-Magee < russ...@keith-magee.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2