On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] <cal.leem...@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote: > The only connection this question has with Django, is the encryption method > that Django uses, and therefore is inappropriate for this forum. > Please refer to http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/UsingTheMailingList > On a site note, it took me less than 10 seconds on Google (with a very > simple search term - first result) to find the answer you needed, which > shows either lack of intuition or total laziness on your part. > Cal >
Wait what? The guy wanted to use Apache to prompt for basic auth, using django.contrib.auth as a datastore for usernames and passwords - why is it inappropriate to ask about extending Django's auth on a django user mailing list? I'm also surprised that you found the answer the OP needed in 10 seconds (and failed to link the OP to it), given that there is no direct solution AFAICT. Far too many people are spending too much time on this mailing list discussing how to respond to users and what is proper to discuss on here, and finding the perfect stock answer to tell people to eff off, rather than actually trying to help them. OP: This is actually tricky to do. Apache's mod_authn_dbd expects the passwords to be in certain explicit formats[1], which do not correspond to how Django's django.contrib.auth package stores the passwords. As this blog post[2] explains, the issue is that apache does not take into account the salt used to secure the password hashes. You could try contacting the author of that post, as he has written his own way around it. Cheers Tom [1] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/misc/password_encryptions.html [2] http://www.david-reid.com/cynic/2009/02/24/django-apache-auth/ -- 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.
