#15755: Admin should allow for configurable support login handling
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Reporter: metzen | Owner: nobody
Type: New feature | Status: new
Milestone: | Component: contrib.admin
Version: SVN | Severity: Normal
Keywords: | Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: 1 |
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In its current implementation, the contrib.admin application attempts to
handle user authentication by displaying a login form for any request
where the user does not have permission to view (either because they are
unauthenticated, or their user account fails the is_active and is_staff
test).
In cases where authentication is being handled by an external system
(e.g., Apache .htaccess or Google Accounts auth on App Engine), it can be
confusing for users to see this login form when their account does not
have permission to access the admin, as in some cases, the credentials
they use might not correspond to what is stored in the Django auth table.
I'd like to propose a configuration knob to allow the choice for whether
the admin app attempts to perform user authentication at all, and instead
just relies on all users to be pre-authenticated.
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