djaodjin-signup 0.8.4

Django app for user authentication

This code a frictionless signup Django app.

The app will register and login a user with as little as only an email address.

When the user logs out and tries to logs back in with the same email address, the app will first verify the email address through an activation url send to the registered email address. Setting the password is deferred to after the email address has been verified.

If during the first login and/or subsequent login, the email address should be verified before moving forward (ex: before presenting a payment view), you should decorate the view with an active_required decorator.

This project contains bare bone templates which are compatible with Django and Jinja2 template engines. To see djaodjin-signup in action as part of a full-fledged subscription-based session proxy, take a look at djaoapp.

Install

Add the signup urls to your urlpatterns and EmailOrUsernameModelBackend to the settings AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS.

urls.py:

    urlpatterns = ('',
        (r'^api/', include('signup.urls.api')),
        (r'^', include('signup.urls.views')),

    )

settings.py:

    AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
        'signup.backends.auth.EmailOrUsernameModelBackend',
        'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'

    )

To make the application useable accross a variety of websites, signup never sends any e-mails directly. It relies on triggering signals whenever a notification must be generated. As a result, to verify a user email address and activate her account, you will need to implement a listener for the user_verification signal and send the e-mail from there.

Development

After cloning the repository, create a virtualenv environment, install the prerequisites, create and load initial data into the database, then run the testsite webapp.

$ python -m venv .venv
$ source .venv/bin/activate
$ pip install -r testsite/requirements.txt
$ make vendor-assets-prerequisites
$ make initdb
$ python manage.py runserver

# Browse http://localhost:8000/

Release Notes

Tested with

• Python: 3.7, Django: 3.2 (LTS)
• Python: 3.10, Django: 4.2 (latest) - see #55
• Python: 2.7, Django: 1.11 (legacy) - use testsite/requirements-legacy.txt

0.8.4

• hotfix: field_value is undefined

0.8.3

• removes connection btw user and contact on delete
• fixes activation with e-mail that looks like a bot
• verifies and activates contact with no user
• restores workflow to recover password from an e-mail

previous release notes