django-authentication

What is the easiest way to make a single sign on (SSO) for a Django project and a vBulletin board on the same domain? I have an existing database of vBulletin users. I have looked into Django's RemoteUserBackend and vBulletin's vBSSO but I haven't found a complete solution. I doesn't know Django, but when you are up to something like this, search for "bridges". There is a high chance someone have already done that for you. These three source of information can also help you get through doing your own bridge: Drupal Bridge http://drupalcode.org/project/drupalvb.git/blob

My custom user model: class MyUser(AbstractBaseUser): username = models.CharField(unique=True,max_length=30) email = models.EmailField(unique=True,max_length=75) is_staff = models.IntegerField(default=False) is_active = models.IntegerField(default=False) date_joined = models.DateTimeField(default=None) # Use default usermanager objects = UserManager() USERNAME_FIELD = 'email' Is there a way to specify multiple USERNAME_FIELD ? Something like ['email','username'] so that users can login via email as well as username ? Alasdair The USERNAME_FIELD setting does not support a list. You could create

I’m implementing authentication in a Django site using the built-in auth module , including the built-in UserCreationForm . I’d like to set a minimum length for passwords. However, I can’t find any documentation on how to do this. Can I configure the auth module’s User module to require this at the database level? Or should I sub-class the UserCreationForm (I’m actually doing this already for unrelated reasons) and add an extra validator that enforces the password length? Chris Pratt Especially if you're already using a sub-classed UserCreationForm , I'd say you should definitely just add the

I am using Django 1.10 with Django-REST. I need to know if a user is logged in or not (offline / online) How can I do that? I am using token based authentication. I tried this article but it didn't work for my use case... it seems to be too old Oz Bar-Shalom Ok, After trying a few different things I got it. Here's how I made it work: First create a Middleware to store on memcache the last time the user has accessed the server. import datetime from django.core.cache import cache from django.conf import settings from django.utils.deprecation import MiddlewareMixin class ActiveUserMiddleware