Usage

You can now use the django_cas.views.login and django-cas.views.logout to do login and logouts by overriding the default Django authentcation url endpoint.

Since there are no models, there is no real need of putting it in your INSTALLED_APPS.

Give the CAS_SERVER_URL in your settings.py

Add the Authentication Backend as

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (

‘django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend’, ‘django_cas.backends.CASBackend’

)

Add the login middleware to intercept all login views with django-cas login views.

MIDDLEWARE_CLASS = (

... ‘django_cas.middleware.CASMiddleware’, ...

)

Be sure that AuthenticationMiddleware is installed prior to this middleware.

Set your urls in your urls.py to where you want your django-cas login endpoints.

url(r’^accounts/login’ , ‘django_cas.views.login’, name=’login_url’), url(r’^accounts/logout’ , ‘django_cas.views.logout’, name=’logout_url’),

Alternatively, in Django 1.7.4, you can set the LOGIN_URL and LOGOUT_URL to set the Django endpoints exactly where your django-cas endpoints are so that all authentication is done by django-cas.

Populated Views Backend

For wrapping about on your login flow, create a PopulatedCASBackend, and override the django_cas.backends.CASBackend with your own.

from django_cas.backends import CASBackend

class PopulatedCASBackend(CASBackend): “”“

CAS authentication with user data populated for custom authentication.

“”“

def authenticate(self, ticket, service):

“”“

Authenticates CAS ticket and retrieves user data.

“”“

user = super(PopulatedCASBackend, self).authenticate(ticket, service) attributes = request.session.get(‘attr’)

do_something_with_attributes()

return user