reviewboard.accounts.backends.nis¶
NIS authentication backend.
- class NISBackend[source]¶
Authenticate against a user on an NIS server.
- 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
- 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