This is used by the Android app to authenticate without prompting for a
password.
To do so, we implement a custom authentication backend that validates
the ID token provided by Google and then tries to see if we have a
corresponding UserProfile on file for them.
If the attestation is valid but the user is unregistered, we return that
fact by modifying a dictionary passed in as a parameter. We then return
the appropriate error message via the API.
This commit adds a dependency on the "googleapi" module. On Debian-based
systems with the Zulip APT repository:
sudo apt-get install python-googleapi
For OS X and other platforms:
pip install googleapi
(imported from commit dbda4e657e5228f081c39af95f956bd32dd20139)
If authoritative data is available from say the LDAP database, we now
ignore the POSTed user name, and don't offer it as a form field.
We fall back to giving the user a text field if they aren't in LDAP.
If users do not have any form fields to fill out, we simply bring them
to the app without the registration page, logging them in using a dummy
backend.
(imported from commit 6bee87430ba46ff753ea3408251e8a80c45c713f)
The latter doesn't depend on the former; we can still fill in your full
name even if you didn't authenticate via LDAP.
This commit requires django_auth_ldap to be installed. On Debian
systems, you can do so via APT:
sudo apt-get install python-django-auth-ldap
On OS X, use your favourite package manager. For pip, I believe this
will work:
pip install django_auth_ldap
django_auth_ldap depends on the "ldap" Python package, which should be
installed automatically on your system.
(imported from commit 43967754285990b06b5a920abe95b8bce44e2053)
This includes a hack to preserve humbug/backends.py as a symlink, so
that we don't need to regenerate all our old sessions.
(imported from commit b7918988b31c71ec01bbdc270db7017d4069221d)