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A Tequila authentication system for Django

Project description

django-tequila allow to use Tequila as the authentification system in django.

Requirements

django-tequila wants a modern version of Django–something after 1.3. This project also expects a fully operational Tequila server.

Installation

Checkout the source from SVN

  • Get the sources:

    svn co https://svn.epfl.ch/svn/django-tools/trunk/django-tequila
  • Go to the freshly created directory and run:

    python setup.py install

Configuration

You can find an django app example in ./django-tequila/sample_app

settings.py

  • Add at the end of your MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES:

    'django_tequila.middleware.TequilaMiddleware',
  • Add to INSTALLED_APPS:

    'django_tequila',
  • Add the line:

    AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = ('django_tequila.django_backend.TequilaBackend',)
  • Set a name that will be print on the tequila login page:

    TEQUILA_SERVICE_NAME = "django_tequila_service"$
  • Finally, add:

        LOGIN_URL = "/login"
        LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = "/"
        LOGIN_REDIRECT_IF_NOT_ALLOWED = "/not_allowed"
    LOGOUT_URL = "/"

urls.py

  • Add this lines:

    from django_tequila.urls import urlpatterns as django_tequila_urlpatterns
    urlpatterns += django_tequila_urlpatterns

Profile customization

You may want to keep some additional informations about the user. Take a look at this page for more informations about profile customization.

  • Create a profile in your models.py, like this:

    from django.contrib.auth.models import User
    from django.db import models
    
    class UserProfile(models.Model):
        #required field
        user = models.ForeignKey(User, unique=True)
    
        sciper = models.PositiveIntegerField(null=True, blank=True)
        where = models.CharField(max_length=100, null=True, blank=True)
        units = models.CharField(max_length=300, null=True, blank=True)
        group = models.CharField(max_length=150, null=True, blank=True)
        classe = models.CharField(max_length=100, null=True, blank=True)
        statut = models.CharField(max_length=100, null=True, blank=True)
    
    # Trigger for creating a profile on user creation
    def user_post_save(sender, instance, **kwargs):
        profile, new = UserProfile.objects.get_or_create(user=instance)
    
    # Register the trigger
    models.signals.post_save.connect(user_post_save, sender=User)
  • in your settings.py, tell django to use your model:

    AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE = "my_app.userprofile"
  • Update your database:

    ./manage.py syncdb

Site Admin customizations

If you want to use the admin site, be sure you have followed all steps to have a working django admin site, then follow this steps :

  • Modify your urls.py to look like this:

    from django.contrib import admin
    from django_tequila.admin import TequilaAdminSite
    admin.autodiscover()
    admin.site.__class__ = TequilaAdminSite
  • Be aware that your username should be equal to the one you use for login in Tequila. If you have not any users at the moment, or you want to edit some of them, create a superuser with this command (replace <USERNAME> and <EMAIL> with you Tequila username and email):

    python manage.py createsuperuser --username=<USERNAME> --email=<EMAIL>

Additional tips and settings

Advanced settings

  • You may want to create an inactive user when someone try to connect to your app. So you can manually control who access it. If this is the case, add this line to settings.py:

    TEQUILA_NEW_USER_INACTIVE = True
  • You may want to add some custom allow with Tequila. If this is the case, add this line to settings.py:

    TEQUILA_CONFIG_ALLOW = 'categorie=shibboleth'
  • You may want to add some custom paramaters with Tequila. If this is the case, add this line to settings.py:

    TEQUILA_CONFIG_ADDITIONAL = {'allowedorgs': 'EPFL, UNIL'}
  • Everytime the user connect trought the Tequila process, he is redirected to an url that has a ‘key’ paramter. For some esthetic reasons,you may want to remove this parameter, so add this line to settings.py:

    TEQUILA_CLEAN_URL = True

    As it creates a redirect to the cleaned address and add an additional page hit, The value by default is False

Help & Contributing

Feel free to contact me (julien [dot] delasoie [at] epfl [dot] ch) with any questions or concerns you may have with the module.

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