reviewboard.accounts.backends.nis¶

NIS authentication backend.

class NISBackend[source]¶

Authenticate against a user on an NIS server.

settings_form[source]¶

alias of reviewboard.accounts.forms.auth.NISSettingsForm

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