On May 21, 12:04 pm, "James Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Graham Dumpleton > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Let me ask my own question then. If one is running multiple Django > > instances, does Django provide anything that would help with single > > sign on (SSO) across all the distinct Django application instances? > > Well, they can share a database and auth against a single users table > (we do this all the time), or you can have an external authentication > source and write an auth backend which knows how to talk to it and > authenticate against it, then use it on all the sites which need it. > I've seen people doing LDAP and various other corporate-love-fest auth > systems that way.
But is it true SSO? Just sharing the same user database doesn't necessarily help in that you still have to log in to each application. Although using HTTP Basic Authentication is easy to manage off a shared authentication handler, it is generally harder when it is a form/cookie based login system. Graham --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
