(Django) Sharing authentication across two sites that are on different domains

Question

I have two sites say foo.com and bar.com and are both Django based. Primary registration occurs on foo.com (I\'d like the main user db to be here) and I\'d like for three th

Answer 1

I think what you are looking for is the SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN setting. You would set it like this:

SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN = 'foo.com'

See http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/http/sessions/#session-cookie-domain for more information on that. This does assume that both applications are using the same session storage backend.