On Monday, 13 August 2012 09:26:18 UTC+1, Joris wrote: > > Dear list > I've seen a number of differnent auth backends for django, but for some > reason could not find a way to have Django auth against the local system > users on the local machine (e.g. /etc/passwd). In my case Django is running > on an intranet site (CentOS6) that is also connected to windows AD. My aim > is to add users in the default Django model, but have django do password > verification against the local system (I guess that means PAM). This way > users only need to change their password once, and locked-out users from AD > are auto-disabled from the django-site. Additional bonus would be if Django > understands the AD groups. > I know there is an LDAP backend for django but I just cannot manage to get > it to work against windows 2003 AD. Being able to auth against local user > (and have the OS/samba deal with the AD integration) would be much easier. > Does anyone have any pointers? > > many thanks > joris > > You keep saying "local machine". Do you mean the machine the user is browsing from? That's not possible, for what should be obvious security reasons. -- DR.
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