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kstateome / django-cas

K-State's maintained version of django-cas
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Allow user creation on first login to be optional. #49

Closed cordmata closed 9 years ago

dstegelman commented 9 years ago

Interesting.. I'm curious as to what your user case is that you would not want a user created locally when they login?

cordmata commented 9 years ago

We have an app that our staff uses to manage media collections. The media it serves to the public gets authenticated by a configured player. The only people who need to login to the system are staff to access the admin. We'd like to use CAS so they don't have to remember a site-specific password just for this system and we don't need the cruft of all the curious folks who try to login.

yscumc commented 9 years ago

Cool! I also had the exact same requirements of restricting login to only existing staff users and solved it by sub-classing cas.backends.CASBackend and overriding authenticate(). Just want to chime in that it's probably a common use case to only allow a predetermined subset of the CAS users to login.

dstegelman commented 9 years ago

Thanks all. We just permissions to prevent people from being able to do anything upon login but I can certainly see the desire to not even want those users added to the DB.