Or you could hack/port the library Peter spoke of earlier and add the functionality you are looking for :] but how would you admin it, and i bet alot would break at first sight.
On Dec 3, 2009, at 4:33 PM, Peter Herndon wrote: > > On Dec 3, 2009, at 3:29 PM, bfrederi wrote: > >> I'm not looking to avoid effort. I just don't want a bunch of extra >> users cluttering up my system if I don't need to. I have no desire >> for >> them to exist in my system for any reason. I want to keep the number >> of django users limited in my system so it is easier to manage them >> in >> admin. >> >> Thanks for the import advice though. Unfortunately, it's not what I'm >> seeking. >> > > In which case, you'll need to rewrite an awful lot of contrib.auth > to work with LDAP directly. The existing contrib.auth is designed > to work with User models stored in a relational database, > manipulated via the standard Django ORM. There are any number of > working snippets for importing user data from LDAP or other sources > on successful authentication, but they all work by creating a User > and storing the model in the db. They just get their user info from > AD, or wherever. The one you chose is very workable. > > While it sounds like a grand thing to avoid the redundancy of > storing your users both in the db and in your original source, the > amount of work involved makes it a non-starter for all but the most > obsessed. And it really doesn't buy you much, practically > speaking. I'd suggest to you that a better approach would be to > work on customizing the admin to separate out your LDAP users from > your local-to-Django users, I seem to recall seeing some snippets to > that purpose. Basically, just rope off your LDAP users and ignore > them. > > Though if you *do* wind up rewriting contrib.auth to work directly > from LDAP, please do post, I'd love to see it. > > ---Peter > > P.S.: Thanks for the plug, Mike! :) > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@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 > . > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@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.
