Re: OpenToken Spec & Single Sign On

2011-01-07 Thread Justin
Well that doesn't seem like much fun! But you're right, that's what will eventually happen. -Justin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this gro

Re: OpenToken Spec & Single Sign On

2011-01-07 Thread Matteius
Well since that is the case, why even use Django? Why not just do this conversion/forwarding using the existing Perl OpenToken library and deploy it to a cgi-bin? -Matteo On Jan 7, 2:17 pm, Justin wrote: > Matteo, > > Thanks for the response. I wish I could just use the > django.contrib.auth au

Re: OpenToken Spec & Single Sign On

2011-01-07 Thread Justin
Matteo, Thanks for the response. I wish I could just use the django.contrib.auth authentication mechanisms and be done with this. However, I am not looking to use OpenToken to authenticate users in Django, per se. I will be making a Django app that accepts an authentication assertion from another

Re: OpenToken Spec & Single Sign On

2011-01-07 Thread Matteius
I don't understand why you would need to use this for server-side authentication in the Django environment? So this OpenToken Single Sign-on appears to be more similar to Django's own django.contrib.auth, and django.contrib.sessions packages, and possibly even less secure (and less documented) tha

OpenToken Spec & Single Sign On

2011-01-06 Thread Justin Murphy
Hello group, Does anybody have experience with the OpenToken specification? It is an authentication token that some (not many) applications use for SSO. I found existing Perl module that encrypts and decrypts the token but I need a Python version to use in a Django project. Not much luck finding