I am trying to build a custom User model with a custom authentication backend
(ldap).
Here is what I've done so far:
Custom LDAP authentication backend:
class LDAPBackend:
def get_user(self, user_id):
try:
return LDAPUser.objects.get(pk=user_id)
except LDAPUser.DoesNotExist:
return None
def authenticate(self, dn=None, password=None):
conn = DS(settings.AUTH_LDAP_SERVER)
conn.connect(dn, password)
try:
user = LDAPUser.objects.get_or_create(dn=dn)
return user
except LDAPUser.DoesNotExist:
pass
return None
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Custom User model:
class LDAPUserManager(BaseUserManager):
def get_or_create(self, dn):
user = LDAPUser(dn)
return user
class LDAPUser(AbstractBaseUser):
dn = models.CharField(max_length=128)
is_active = models.BooleanField(default=True)
is_admin = models.BooleanField(default=False)
objects = LDAPUserManager()
USERNAME_FIELD = 'dn'
def __unicode__(self):
return self.dn
…
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Based on that, in my view I have:
def do_login():
user = authenticate(dn=dn, password=password)
user.is_authenticated() <--- returns True
return HttpResponseRedirect("/manage")
def manage():
print request.session['dn']
print request.user
Shouldn't the request.user in manage() be my LDAPUser instance? It shows
AnonymousUser. Where is the session stored (if any) when I do the
authenticate() ?
Sorry for these basic questions, I am new to Django.
Also, I feel like I am going to end up having to customize every aspects of the
User model… am I going about this the wrong way?
What I am really trying to do is create a LDAP based users as well as LDAP
based database (no SQL database) for all my data. I looked at Django_auth_ldap,
but that won't cut it, I need to have a little bit more customization on it (I
think).
Thanks for any help!
Anil
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