pyams-auth-remote 2.1.0

PyAMS authentication package using REMOTE_USER environment variable

Contents

• What is PyAMS?

• What is PyAMS remote authentication?

• Changelog

  • 2.1.0

  • 2.0.4

  • 2.0.3

  • 2.0.2

  • 2.0.1

  • 2.0.0

What is PyAMS?

PyAMS (Pyramid Application Management Suite) is a small suite of packages written for applications and content management with the Pyramid framework.

PyAMS is actually mainly used to manage web sites through content management applications (CMS, see PyAMS_content package), but many features are generic and can be used inside any kind of web application.

All PyAMS documentation is available on ReadTheDocs; source code is available on Gitlab and pushed to Github. Doctests are available in the doctests source folder.

What is PyAMS remote authentication?

PyAMS remote authentication package is an extension package for PyAMS which allows usage of REMOTE_USER environment variable as a principal identifier. This environment variable can be set, for example, by Apache SSL module, by extracting identity from incoming certificate.

Changelog

2.1.0

• added settings option pyams_auth_remote.mode to use an HTTP header instead of an environment variable

2.0.4

• corrected typo in plugin class name

2.0.3

• tag mismatch

2.0.2

• add “pre-authenticated” attribute to credentials

2.0.1

• updated translation

2.0.0

• initial release