GSSAPI authentication for Django
==================================
Provide GSSAPI (SPNEGO) authentication to Django applications.
It's a rewrite of django-kerberos using python-gssapi.
It's only tested with MIT Kerberos 5 using package k5test.
Python 2 and 3, Django >1.8 are supported.
Basic usage
===========
Add this to your project `urls.py`::
url('^auth/gssapi/', include('django_gssapi.urls')),
And use the default authentication backend, by adding that to your `settings.py` file::
AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
'django_gssapi.backends.GSSAPIBackend',
)
View
====
django-gssapi provide a base LoginView that you can subclass to get the
behaviour your need, the main extension points are:
- `challenge()` returns the 401 response with the challenge, you should override it
to show a template explaining the failure,
- `success(user)` it should log the given user and redirect to REDIRECT_FIELD_NAME,
- `get_service_name()` it should return a gssapi.Name for your service, by
default it returns None, so GSSAPI will match any name available (for example
with Kerberos it will match any name in your keytab, like
@HTTP/my.domain.com@).
Settings
========
To make your application use GSSAPI as its main login method::
LOGIN_URL = 'gssapi-login'
Your application need an environment where the GSSAPI mechanism like Kerberos
will work, for Kerberos it means having a default keytab of creating one and
setting its path in KRB5_KTNAME or you can use `GSSAPI_STORE` with MIT Kerberos
5 and credential store extension to indicate a keytab::
GSSAPI_STORE = {'keytab': 'FILE:/var/lib/mykeytab'}
You can also force a GSSAPI name for you service with::
import gssapi
GSSAPI_NAME = gssapi.Name('HTTP/my.service.com', gssapi.MechType.hostbased_service)
GSSAPI authentication backend
=============================
A dummy backend is provided in `django_gssapi.backends.GSSAPIBackend` it looks
up user with the same username as the GSSAPI name. You should implement it for
your use case.
A custom authentication backend must have the following signature::
class CustomGSSAPIBackend(object):
def authenticate(self, request, gssapi_name):
pass
The parameter `gssapi_name` is a `gssapi.Name` object, it can be casted to
string to get the raw name.
Kerberos username/password backend
==================================
If your users does not have their browser configured for SPNEGO HTTP
authentication you can also provide a classic login/password form which check
passwords using Kerberos. For this use
`django_gssapi.backends.KerberosPasswordBackend`, the username is used as the
raw principal name.
django-rest-framework authentication backend
============================================
To authenticate users with GSSAPI you can use
`django_gssapi.drf.GSSAPIAuthentication`, it uses the configured GSSAPI
authentication backend to find an user and returns the GSSAPI name in
`request.auth`.