django-auth-spngeo 🪄

Django authentication backend for adding Kerberos/GSS auth to your Django application for single sign-on.

Provides authentication backends and views that are ready-to-use without further modification or can be used as mixins and part of already-existing logic.

Requirements

• Generated keytab file that's either at /etc/krb5.keytab or set via environment variable KRB5_KTNAME See here for excellent information on how to create one
• A working Kerberos KDC (MIT, Microsoft AD DS, Heimdall, ...)
• SPN (Service Principal Name) for your application server(s)
• A method for mapping Kerberos Principals to User objects in your backend

Installation 👾

Install the package with pip:

pip install django-auth-spnego2

To use the auth backend in a Django project, add 'django_auth_spnego.backends.SpnegoModelBackend' to AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS:

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = [
    'django_auth_spnego.backends.SpnegoModelBackend',
]

If you want to use the pre-configured views to authenticate users, add django_auth_spnego to INSTALLED_APPS to be able to use the views:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'django_auth_spnego',
]

Then simply add the authentication view to your urls.py (alternatively use SpnegoLoginView for redirects):

from django_auth_spnego.views import SpnegoView

urls.append(r"^auth/spnego$", SpnegoView.as_view(), name="spnego")

Configuration 🛠️

# Optional setting to define which SPN to use in your keytab file. 
# If this is empty, all keytab entries will be used.
#   For example: `HTTP/sso.contoso.loc`
AUTH_KERBEROS_SPN: str = ''

# Split the Kerberos ticket UPN (User Principal Name) at the rightmost `@` sign. 
# This can be useful if you want to match the left part to Django's default 
# username or don't have your UPN's set up to match the e-mail address.
#       `Administrator@CONTOSO.LOC ==> Administrator`
#   This is only relevant when using the default authentication backend.
AUTH_KERBEROS_UPN_SPLIT: bool = True

# Which Django user field should be used for lookup (e.g. `username`, `email`). 
# If empty, the `USERNAME_FIELD` configured in the user model will be used instead.
#   This is only relevant when using the default authentication backend.
AUTH_KERBEROS_USERNAME_LOOKUP: str = ''

# Automatically create users attempting to authenticate that do not exist yet. 
#   This is only relevant when using the default authentication backend.
AUTH_KERBEROS_CREATE_UNKNOWN_USERS: bool = True

Advanced Usage Information & Client Auth

Optionally, combine Kerberos authentication with LDAP via django-auth-ldap to aggregate further user information from your Domain Controller after successful authentication – like display name, email address and group memberships.

from django_auth_ldap.backend import LDAPBackend
from django_auth_spnego.backends import SpnegoBackendMixin


class SpnegoLdapBackend(SpnegoBackendMixin, LDAPBackend):
    def get_user_from_username(self, username):
        return self.populate_user(username)

To test Kerberos authentication, acquire a ticket, and point your favorite supported client at the endpoint.

import requests
from requests_kerberos import HTTPKerberosAuth

r = requests.get('http://sso.contoso.loc/auth/spnego', auth=HTTPKerberosAuth())
r.status_code

To streamline authentication for function-based views, a decorator is available to automatically authenticate users when necessary. This is particularly useful for scripts accessing protected resources, as it eliminates the need to manually call an authentication endpoint in advance.

from django_auth_spnego.decorators import login_required_spnego

@login_required_spnego
def view(request):
    ...

See here for further excellent information!

Acknowledgements

• Brandon Ewing (bewing) for providing the initial library this fork is based on
• Matt Magin (AzMoo) for writing a similar Middleware
• Lynn Root (econchick) for an excellent write-up on client auth