On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 4:23 AM, Anil Jangity <an...@me.com> wrote:
> 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
>
> =========================
>
> 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
> …
>
>
>
> =========================
>
>
>
> 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
>
I'm surprised you didn't get an answer sooner. You call
authenticate(), but you do not call login(). authenticate()
authenticates a user against your auth backends, but login() is what
persists the authenticated user in the session.
This is detailed in the docs:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/topics/auth/#how-to-log-a-user-in
Cheers
Tom
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