reviewboard.accounts.backends.nis¶

NIS authentication backend.

class NISBackend[source]¶

Bases: reviewboard.accounts.backends.base.BaseAuthBackend

Authenticate against a user on an NIS server.

backend_id = u'nis'[source]¶

name = u'NIS'[source]¶

settings_form[source]¶

alias of reviewboard.accounts.forms.auth.NISSettingsForm

login_instructions = u'Use your standard NIS username and password.'[source]¶

authenticate(request, username, password, **kwargs)[source]¶

Authenticate the user.

This will attempt to authenticate the user against NIS. If the username and password are valid, a user will be returned, and added to the database if it doesn’t already exist.

Changed in version 4.0: The request argument is now mandatory as the first positional argument, as per requirements in Django.

Parameters:	request (django.http.HttpRequest) – The HTTP request from the caller. This may be None. username (unicode) – The username to authenticate. password (unicode) – The password to authenticate. **kwargs (dict, unused) – Additional keyword arguments.
Returns:	The authenticated user, or None if the user could not be authenticated.
Return type:	django.contrib.auth.models.User

get_or_create_user(username, request=None, passwd=None)[source]¶

Return an existing user, or create one if it does not exist.

Parameters:	username (unicode) – The username of the user. request (django.http.HttpRequest, optional) – The HTTP request from the client. passwd (tuple, optional) – The parsed NIS passwd entry for the user.
Returns:	The existing or newly-created user, or None if an error was encountered.
Return type:	django.contrib.auth.models.User