single signin between python cgi and python django

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There are one project using Python Django, another stand alone project using python cgi. Both has it own user auth. module. What would be a simple way to merge user management together? I mean signin already built in python cgi, i want to use the same signin for python django, how i can pass authenticated user_id and username from python cgi to python django.currently i am using mysql database for both application

usually in django we will passing authenticated user as follows in views.py

user = request.user

But signin is built using python cgi, how can i pass athenticated user from python cgi to python django(views.py)

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Perhaps create a custom authentication backend in your Django app, which sends authentication requests to your cgi app? — Will Keeling
– Will Keeling, Commented Dec 7, 2018 at 12:19

Paolo Melchiorre · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-16 11:35:14Z

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I think you can use one of the Django authentication middleware like RemoteUserMiddleware or PersistentRemoteUserMiddleware.

They are middlewarer for utilizing Web server provided authentication.

You can see Authentication using REMOTE_USER for usage details.

When the Web server takes care of authentication it typically sets the REMOTE_USER environment variable for use in the underlying application. In Django, REMOTE_USER is made available in the request.META attribute. Django can be configured to make use of the REMOTE_USER value using the RemoteUserMiddleware or PersistentRemoteUserMiddleware, and RemoteUserBackend classes found in django.contrib.auth.

answered Dec 16, 2018 at 11:35

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Mohamed Benkedadra · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-13 12:32:24Z

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you need to do a single sign on, take a look at this

https://github.com/namespace-ee/django-rest-framework-sso

personally i use an ldap database to store the users, everytime a user is accessing my app for the first time, a query is sent to a server where i have a rest api set up which verifies if the user logged in before, and didn't log out.

answered Dec 13, 2018 at 12:32

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