reviewboard.accounts.backends.nis¶

NIS authentication backend.

class NISBackend[source]¶

Bases: BaseAuthBackend

Authenticate against a user on an NIS server.

backend_id = 'nis'[source]¶

The unique ID for the authentication backend.

name = 'NIS'[source]¶

The display name for the authentication backend.

This will be shown in the list of backends in the administration UI.

settings_form[source]¶

alias of NISSettingsForm

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

Authentication instructions to display above the Login form.

nis[source]¶

The nis module, used for interacting with NIS.

On first access, this will check if NIS is available, logging an error if missing.

This safeguards against Python environments without NIS, and against versions of Python >= 3.13.

Type:

module

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