{"id":454,"date":"2013-07-12T10:00:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dashdrum.com\/blog\/?p=454"},"modified":"2013-07-12T10:00:34","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T14:00:34","slug":"cas-with-django-1-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dashdrum.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/cas-with-django-1-5\/","title":{"rendered":"CAS with Django 1.5"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve posted a couple<\/a> of times<\/a> before about using a Central Authentication Service<\/a> with Django. As I update my applications to Django v1.5, it is time to revisit the subject.<\/p>\n

In my Django v1.3 setup, the django-cas<\/a> library has served me well. However, in this later version of the framework, there are changes that break the library. The maintainer of django-cas has not yet updated their code to work with 1.5 (although there are pull requests waiting that address the issue – stay tuned).<\/p>\n

\"Kansas<\/a>Luckily, another educational institution has forked the library. Our friends at Kansas State University<\/a> (Go Wildcats!) have released their maintained version of django-cas on github<\/a>. They have fixed the issue with the get_host()<\/code> call, plus added some proxy features. Note that the fix is in a branch and not yet in a released version – currently at v0.8.5. I have installed it in my first app to be converted, and it works fine.<\/p>\n

Installation<\/h2>\n

As far as I can tell, this K-State fork is not hosted on PyPi at this time, so I use this line in my requirements file to get the library via pip:<\/p>\n

svn+https:\/\/github.com\/kstateome\/django-cas\/branches\/bugfix\/django_1_5\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
This uses Subversion because that is what is available on the servers, but the git syntax will work just as well.<\/p>\n
Configuration<\/h2>\n
K-State has provided only minimal documentation, but they link back to the original CCPC<\/a> installation guide<\/a>. Below are my settings.py<\/code> and urls.py<\/code> code. (Note that USE_CAS<\/code> is a variable I define that is set True or False based on the environment.)<\/p>\n
## django_cas settings\nif USE_CAS:\n    CAS_SERVER_URL = '### your server URL here ###'\n    CAS_VERSION = '2'\n    CAS_LOGOUT_COMPLETELY = True\n\n    AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (\n        'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',\n        'cas.backends.CASBackend',\n    )\n\n    MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES += (\n        'cas.middleware.CASMiddleware',\n    )\n## end django_cas settings\n\n# django_cas urls\nif settings.USE_CAS:\n    urlpatterns = patterns('',\n    ('^admin\/logout\/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='..\/..\/accounts\/logout')), ## TODO: This could be better\n    ('^admin\/password_change\/$',RedirectView.as_view(url='### URL to your password change service ###')),\n    url(r'^accounts\/login\/$', 'cas.views.login',name='login'),\n    url(r'^accounts\/logout\/$', 'cas.views.logout',name='logout'),\n                       ) + urlpatterns\nelse:\n    urlpatterns = patterns('',\n    url(r'^accounts\/login\/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.login',{'template_name': 'login.html'},name='login'),\n                       ) + urlpatterns       \n# end django_cas urls\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Biggest change is that the package name changed from django-cas<\/code> to cas<\/code>.<\/p>\n
Best of luck with your CAS setup!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve posted a couple of times before about using a Central Authentication Service with Django. As I update my applications to Django v1.5, it is time to revisit the subject. In my Django v1.3 setup, the django-cas library has served me well. However, in this later version of the framework, there are changes that break … <\/p>\n
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