reviewboard.accounts.backends.x509¶

X.509 authentication backend.

class X509Backend[source]¶

Authenticate a user from a X.509 client certificate.

The certificate is passed in by the browser. This backend relies on the X509AuthMiddleware to extract a username field from the client certificate.

settings_form[source]¶

alias of reviewboard.accounts.forms.auth.X509SettingsForm

authenticate(request, x509_field='', **kwargs)[source]¶

Authenticate the user.

This will extract the username from the provided certificate and return the appropriate User object.

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.

• x509_field (unicode, optional) – The value of the field containing the username.

• **kwargs (dict, unused) – Additional keyword arguments supplied by the caller.

Returns

The authenticated user, or None if the user could not be authenticated for any reason.

Return type

django.contrib.auth.models.User

clean_username(username)[source]¶

Validate the ‘username’ field.

This checks to make sure that the contents of the username field are valid for X509 authentication.

get_or_create_user(username, request)[source]¶

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