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When the Web server (here django hosted on IIS) takes care of authentication it typically sets the REMOTE_USER
environment variable for use in the underlying application. In Django, REMOTE_USER
is made available in the request.META attribute. Django can be configured to make use of the REMOTE_USER
value using the RemoteUserMiddleware
and RemoteUserBackend
classes found in django.contrib.auth.
Configurations
You must add the django.contrib.auth.middleware.RemoteUserMiddleware
to the MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES
setting after the django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware
:
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
...
'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
'django.contrib.auth.middleware.RemoteUserMiddleware',
...
)
Next, you must replace the ModelBackend
with RemoteUserBackend
in the AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS
setting:
AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
'django.contrib.auth.backends.RemoteUserBackend',
)
With this setup, RemoteUserMiddleware
will detect the username in request.META['REMOTE_USER']
and will authenticate and auto-login that user using the RemoteUserBackend
.
(More info https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/howto/auth-remote-user/ )
To get REMOTE_USER
in request do the following IIS settings:
1.In Control Panel, click Programs and Features, and then click Turn Windows features on or off.
2.Expand Internet Information Services, expand World Wide Web Services, expand Security, and then select Windows Authentication.
IIS Manager
- Open IIS Manager and navigate to the level you want to manage.
- In Features View, double-click Authentication.
- On the Authentication page, select Windows Authentication.
- In the Actions pane, click Enable to use Windows authentication.
(More info)
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Check out this module https://pypi.org/project/django-windowsauth/
You can use it module to deploy your Django Project on IIS and enable Windows Authentication.
It can also handle synchronize extra user information from Active Directory, and some other neat features.
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