reviewboard.accounts.backends.nis¶
NIS authentication backend.
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class
NISBackend
[source]¶ Bases:
reviewboard.accounts.backends.base.BaseAuthBackend
Authenticate against a user on an NIS server.
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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: - request (django.http.HttpRequest) – The HTTP request from the caller. This may be
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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:
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