On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Roberto Bouza <bouz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been hitting my head pretty hard trying to figure out what the
> problem is hope someone here can help.
>
> I've set up the remote backends and middleware as per the docs and
> blatantly I'm coding the META remote_user and nothing happens. like
> this:
>
> MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
> 'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
> 'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
> 'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
> 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
> 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.RemoteUserMiddleware',
> 'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
> )
GOOD:
RemoteUserMiddleware will attempt to authenticate as REMOTE_USER if
the user has not already been authenticated.
>
> AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
> 'django.contrib.auth.backends.RemoteUserBackend',
> )
GOOD:
RemoteUserBackend will create new users when an unknown user is authenticated.
>
> Then on my view:
>
> def login_(request):
> request.META['REMOTE_USER'] = 'test123'
> try:
> user = User.objects.get(username=request.META['REMOTE_USER'])
> logger.debug("got user: %s, %s", user.last_name,
> user.first_name)
> except ObjectDoesNotExist:
> logger.debug("username: %s, does not exist",
> request.META['REMOTE_USER'])
>
> return render_to_response('myapp/dashboard.html',
> {'section':'dashboard'}, context_instance=RequestContext(request))
>
> All goes as planned, but the user is not being created. Am I missing
> something here?
Yes, wtf are you trying to do here? You cannot randomly change things
in request.META from inside your view, and expect the middleware code
*that has already run* to create and authenticate as your user. If
REMOTE_USER was being set correctly by your web server, what you have
configured would work.
With it set up correctly, you wouldn't have to mess around looking at
request.META['REMOTE_USER'] to get the user, it would be available on
request.user.
Cheers
Tom
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