from django.contrib import auth from django.contrib.auth import load_backend from django.contrib.auth.backends import RemoteUserBackend from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured from django.utils.functional import SimpleLazyObject def get_user(request): if not hasattr(request, '_cached_user'): request._cached_user = auth.get_user(request) return request._cached_user class AuthenticationMiddleware(object): def process_request(self, request): assert hasattr(request, 'session'), "The Django authentication middleware requires session middleware to be installed. Edit your MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES setting to insert 'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware'." request.user = SimpleLazyObject(lambda: get_user(request)) class RemoteUserMiddleware(object): """ Middleware for utilizing Web-server-provided authentication. If request.user is not authenticated, then this middleware attempts to authenticate the username passed in the ``REMOTE_USER`` request header. If authentication is successful, the user is automatically logged in to persist the user in the session. The header used is configurable and defaults to ``REMOTE_USER``. Subclass this class and change the ``header`` attribute if you need to use a different header. """ # Name of request header to grab username from. This will be the key as # used in the request.META dictionary, i.e. the normalization of headers to # all uppercase and the addition of "HTTP_" prefix apply. header = "REMOTE_USER" def process_request(self, request): # AuthenticationMiddleware is required so that request.user exists. if not hasattr(request, 'user'): raise ImproperlyConfigured( "The Django remote user auth middleware requires the" " authentication middleware to be installed. Edit your" " MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES setting to insert" " 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware'" " before the RemoteUserMiddleware class.") try: username = request.META[self.header] except KeyError: # If specified header doesn't exist then remove any existing # authenticated remote-user, or return (leaving request.user set to # AnonymousUser by the AuthenticationMiddleware). if request.user.is_authenticated(): try: stored_backend = load_backend(request.session.get( auth.BACKEND_SESSION_KEY, '')) if isinstance(stored_backend, RemoteUserBackend): auth.logout(request) except ImproperlyConfigured as e: # backend failed to load auth.logout(request) return # If the user is already authenticated and that user is the user we are # getting passed in the headers, then the correct user is already # persisted in the session and we don't need to continue. if request.user.is_authenticated(): if request.user.get_username() == self.clean_username(username, request): return # We are seeing this user for the first time in this session, attempt # to authenticate the user. user = auth.authenticate(remote_user=username) if user: # User is valid. Set request.user and persist user in the session # by logging the user in. request.user = user auth.login(request, user) def clean_username(self, username, request): """ Allows the backend to clean the username, if the backend defines a clean_username method. """ backend_str = request.session[auth.BACKEND_SESSION_KEY] backend = auth.load_backend(backend_str) try: username = backend.clean_username(username) except AttributeError: # Backend has no clean_username method. pass return username