On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Tomas Kouba <to...@jikos.cz> wrote: > Hello, > > how can I map a DN (or any other part of X509 certificate) to a django user? > > I have found a documentation article about django middleware using > REMOTE_USER > transferred from apache, but I am not sure if this is the way and if yes how > to > - tell apache that a given part of X509 certificate should go to REMOTE_USER
This is covered by Apache's mod_ssl docs: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_ssl.html#sslusername > - map REMOTE_USER strings to django users This you will have to do yourself. It's quite easy, simply extend django.contrib.auth.backends.RemoteUserBackend, override the clean_username() method to correctly extract the username from whatever bit of the certificate you placed in REMOTE_USER, and set that as one of your AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS. Cheers Tom -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
