dc-auth 1.2.12

The Data Central authentication django app

dc-auth is a dedicated Django app to connect the Data Central authentication backend (LDAP) to multiple dc sites (api, cms etc) via CAS. It supports session-based authentication (tested) and JWT authentication (untested).

For users outside of Data Central, you’ll need to send us details about your application in order to be able to connect, please contact us at https://jira.aao.org.au/servicedesk/customer/portal/3.

Quick start

Add “dc_auth” + the following apps to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'rest_framework',
    'rest_framework.authtoken',
    'rest_auth',
    ...
    'dc_auth',
]

Add django_settings_export.settings_export to your project’s context_processors:

'OPTIONS': {
    'context_processors': [
        'django.template.context_processors.debug',
        'django.template.context_processors.request',
        'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
        'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
        'django_settings_export.settings_export',                   # <----
    ],
},

Include the dc_auth URLconf in your project urls.py like this:

path('auth/', include('dc_auth.urls')),

Migrate to create the Profile table. Run python manage.py migrate.

Start the development server and visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/auth/login to log into your account.

Tests

From the top-level directory run:

$ tox

dcauth comes with some helpers that tools building on dcauth can use, specifically pytest fixtures for affiliation (affiliation) and test passwords (secure_password), as well as factories and fixtures for the User and Profile classes.

Installing for internal applications

To install into another Data Central project, add dc_auth to your requirements file (lock to a specific version), and ensure that pip is pointed to the DC devpi instance.