googleappsauth 1.01p3

googleappsauth authenticates Django Users against a Google Apps Domain

# Authentication agains Google Apps Domains for Django

*googleappsauth* allows you to authenticate your [Django][1] users against an Google Apps[2] domain.
This means you basically get a single sign-on solution, provided that all users of your django application
also have Accounts in Google Apps for your Domain.

[1]: http://www.djangoproject.com/
[2]: http://www.google.com/apps/

## Usage

To use googleappsauth, configuration in `settings.py` should look like this:

GOOGLE_APPS_DOMAIN = 'example.com'
GOOGLE_APPS_CONSUMER_KEY = 'example.com'
GOOGLE_APPS_CONSUMER_SECRET = '*sekret*'
GOOGLE_OPENID_ENDPOINT = 'https://www.google.com/a/%s/o8/ud?be=o8' % GOOGLE_APPS_DOMAIN
GOOGLE_API_SCOPE = 'http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/+http://docs.google.com/feeds/+http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/'
# domain where your application is running
GOOGLE_OPENID_REALM = 'http://*.hudora.biz/'

You also have to tell googleappsauth where various views life:

LOGIN_URL = '/login'
LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = '/admin'
LOGOUT_URL = '/logout'

To activate googleappsauth, set the appropriate Authentication backend and include a callback view.

settings.py:
AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = ('googleappsauth.backends.GoogleAuthBackend',)

urls.py:
(r'^callback_googleappsauth/', 'googleappsauth.views.callback'),


Using a special middleware which is included int he package, you can block access to a compete site.

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
'googleappsauth.middleware.GoogleAuthMiddleware',
)

In addition you can set `AUTH_PROTECTED_AREAS` to authenticate only access to certain parts of a site, e.g.

AUTH_PROTECTED_AREAS = '/admin'

## Download

Get it at the [Python Cheeseshop][3] or at [GitHub][4].

[3]: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/googleappsauth/
[4]: http://github.com/hudora/django-googleappsauth

## See also

* Tim Garthwaite: [Google Apps Auth Backend for Django][5]
* http://github.com/flashingpumpkin/django-socialregistration/
* http://github.com/uswaretech/Django-Socialauth/

[5]: http://techblog.appirio.com/2008/10/google-apps-auth-backend-for-django.html