I am using django-python3-ldap for LDAP authentication in Django. This works completely fine but whenever an LDAP user is (successfully) authenticated the user details are stored in the local Django database (auth_user table).
My question now is when the same
(LDAP) user tries to authenticate next time, the user will be authenticated by LDAP or by the default Django authentication (since the user details are now stored in the local Django database)?
If the user is authenticated using local Django database then the user can still able to get access even after the user is removed from the LDAP server? This is a real concern for me?.
If this is the case is there a way, so that the LDAP user details is removed from the database (auth_user table) everytime the user is logged out and created every time the user is logged in?. Any help in the right direction is highly appreciated. Thank you for your valuable inputs.
From the documentation:
When a user attempts to authenticate, a connection is made to the LDAP
server, and the application attempts to bind using the provided
username and password. If the bind attempt is successful, the user
details are loaded from the LDAP server and saved in a local Django
User model. The local model is only created once, and the details will
be kept updated with the LDAP record details on every login.
It authenticates by binding each time, and updates the information from LDAP (as you have it configured) each time. The Django user won't be removed from Django's user table if removed from LDAP; if you set multiple auth backends to also using the Django default auth, the user should be able to login (perhaps after a password reset) if removed from LDAP. If you look in your auth_user table you will noticed users using Django auth have their passwords hashed with pbkdf2_sha256, and the LDAP users passwords do not.
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I'm starting a project in Django and I've already managed to get ldap authentication working, with django-auth-ldap.
Now, I want that after the user logs in, django checks if this user exists in certain tables of my models, and if it does, give these users permission to access certain apps.
For example, I have an app called 'alimentacao'. Only users registered in my model 'alimentacao.alunos' will be able to access "http://meu-projeto/alimentacao"
As the user is created automatically if it doesn't already exist in the user model, I believe I would have to create a custom ldap authentication backend and check, after successful login, if the user exists in the table, and then set the permission to user.
Neither the Django nor the django-auth-ldap documentation clearly explains how to create an authentication backend: in which folders the files need to be created, or how the application will call my custom method, or if I need to change any settings. I'm completely lost.
I have created a tool for my colleagues and i have integrated SSO with this django application as well.
Now the way i'm planning to authenticate users are like the following.
SSO page is sending the logged in user ID in cookie.
If the logged in user have an account in django users, i'll check for a match and i should authenticate the user.
The challenge i'm facing here is while creating users i have to provide password and i don't want to validate user password again.
Is there a way i can disable the password while we add the user in to django admin itself?
I'm using Django 1.11 with python 3.4.
Let me know your thoughts.
I am new to django i made a registration page and login page now i want a user registered to login to my website when a user is logged in i want to associate a session for user which only dies when he logs out or he closes the browser
now whenever the user loads the page even after a week if the browser is not closed he should be granted access.Now the django is storing sessions in its database but will i be able to authenticate the user as different users have different permissions.can someone suggest any resource for my requirement.
I found what i needed http://gavinballard.com/associating-django-users-sessions/ its by creating a custom model extending the default one.
I'm currently using django-auth-ldap to authenticate with LDAP, and I've looked through all the docs for the library, it doesn't mention what happens to the django database when the database we are authenticating against removes the user.
I know we can do a check when we authenticate to make sure if the user is removed, but how do I clean up the user since a user will be created if it's successfully authenticated. Do I just do it like I'd normally do with Django user object?
Thank you!
I would like when a user creates an account in Django, that the user information :
- Username
- Password
- Email
- First and Last Name
- Mobile
Gets also populated in my LDAP server. Also when the user get deactivated, this gets reflected in LDAP.
Authentication will still be done in Django.
I need the user information as i have another application which is getting the user info from LDAP. I need both to be have the same user universe.
Are there any snippet that does that already ?
I saw many code to authenticate thourgh LDAP, but what i really need is to populate the LDAP directory with my Django user on the fly
Thanks for your help
Check out this snippet, it should do exactly what you're after (a bit old though, so YMMV with newer django)