I believe what you are looking for is a custom authentication backend. I had to do this for one of my sites that used an XMLRPC api to authenticate against a remote server. You'll want to create a class that extends django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend , and add it to the AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS setting.
One thing to be wary of though -- if your authentication code at any point throws a TypeError, you might have a hard time debugging it -- see this bug for more info: http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/10378 On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Daniel Jewett <d...@solidether.net> wrote: > > I have a circumstance that requires me to use an alternative > authentication scenario. The authentication to our school's web site/ > services is handled by the the hosting service. (There is some sort of > syncing that occurs with our local Active Directory database.) > > I'm installing some Django apps on the school's local webserver which > needs to authenticate against the remote database. > > The hosting service sent me this decrypt function in ASP. > > Function DeCrypt(strEncrypted, strKey) > Dim strChar, iKeyChar, iStringChar > For i = 1 To Len(strEncrypted) > iKeyChar = (Asc(Mid(strKey, i, 1))) > iStringChar = Asc(Mid(strEncrypted, i, 1)) > iDeCryptChar = iKeyChar Xor iStringChar > strDecrypted = strDecrypted & Chr(iDeCryptChar) > Next > DeCrypt = strDecrypted > End Function > > UserName = Decrypt(request.Cookies("sample")("u"), "Encrypt Key") > > I'm assuming this Xor decrypt function can be rewritten in Python but > I could use some help getting started on how to put this all together. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
