from django.db import connection from django.contrib.auth.backends import RemoteUserBackend from seahub.base.accounts import User class ShibbolethRemoteUserBackend(RemoteUserBackend): """ This backend is to be used in conjunction with the ``RemoteUserMiddleware`` found in the middleware module of this package, and is used when the server is handling authentication outside of Django. By default, the ``authenticate`` method creates ``User`` objects for usernames that don't already exist in the database. Subclasses can disable this behavior by setting the ``create_unknown_user`` attribute to ``False``. """ # Create a User object if not already in the database? create_unknown_user = True def get_user(self, username): try: user = User.objects.get(email=username) except User.DoesNotExist: user = None return user def authenticate(self, remote_user, shib_meta): """ The username passed as ``remote_user`` is considered trusted. This method simply returns the ``User`` object with the given username, creating a new ``User`` object if ``create_unknown_user`` is ``True``. Returns None if ``create_unknown_user`` is ``False`` and a ``User`` object with the given username is not found in the database. """ if not remote_user: return user = None username = self.clean_username(remote_user) # Note that this could be accomplished in one try-except clause, but # instead we use get_or_create when creating unknown users since it has # built-in safeguards for multiple threads. try: user = User.objects.get(email=username) except User.DoesNotExist: if self.create_unknown_user: user = User.objects.create_user(email=username, is_active=True) else: pass return user