Django CAS NG

django-cas-ng is Central Authentication Service (CAS) client implementation. This project inherits from django-cas (which has not been updated since April 2013). The NG stands for "next generation". Our fork will include bugfixes and new features contributed by the community.

Features

• Supports CAS versions 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0.
• Support Single Sign Out
• Can fetch Proxy Granting Ticket
• Supports Django 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 with User custom model
• Most probably it will work with Django 1.8 too (some of our developers use it with this version), but we don't run automated tests to confirm that (yet).
• Supports Python 2.7, 3.x

Installation

Install with pip:

pip install django-cas-ng

Install the latest code:

pip install https://github.com/mingchen/django-cas-ng/archive/master.zip

Install from source code:

python setup.py install

Settings

Now add it to the middleware, authentication backends and installed apps in your settings. Make sure you also have the authentication middleware installed. Here's an example:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'django_cas_ng',
    ...
)

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    ...
)

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
    'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',
    'django_cas_ng.backends.CASBackend',
)

Set the following required setting in settings.py:

• CAS_SERVER_URL: This is the only setting you must explicitly define.

  Set it to the base URL of your CAS source (e.g. https://account.example.com/cas/).

Optional settings include:

• CAS_ADMIN_PREFIX: The URL prefix of the Django administration site. If undefined, the CAS middleware will check the view being rendered to see if it lives in django.contrib.admin.views.

• CAS_CREATE_USER: Create a user when the CAS authentication is successful. The default is True.

• CAS_LOGIN_MSG: Welcome message send via the messages framework upon successful authentication. Take the user login as formatting argument. The default is "Login succeeded. Welcome, %s." or some translation of it if you have enabled django internationalization (USE_I18N = True) You cas disable it by setting this parametter to None

• CAS_LOGGED_MSG: Welcome message send via the messages framework upon authentication attempt if the user is already authenticated. Take the user login as formatting argument. The default is "You are logged in as %s." or some translation of it if you have enabled django internationalization (USE_I18N = True) You cas disable it by setting this parametter to None

• CAS_EXTRA_LOGIN_PARAMS: Extra URL parameters to add to the login URL when redirecting the user. Example:

  CAS_EXTRA_LOGIN_PARAMS = {'renew': true}
  

  If you need these parameters to be dynamic, then we recommend to implement a wrapper for our default login view (the same can be done in case of the logout view). See an example in the section below.

• CAS_RENEW: whether pass renew parameter on login and verification of ticket to enforce that the login is made with a fresh username and password verification in the CAS server. Default is False.

• CAS_IGNORE_REFERER: If True, logging out of the application will always send the user to the URL specified by CAS_REDIRECT_URL.

• CAS_LOGOUT_COMPLETELY: If False, logging out of the application won't log the user out of CAS as well.

• CAS_REDIRECT_URL: Where to send a user after logging in or out if there is no referrer and no next page set. Default is /.

• CAS_RETRY_LOGIN: If True and an unknown or invalid ticket is received, the user is redirected back to the login page.

• CAS_VERSION: The CAS protocol version to use. '1' and '2' are supported, with '2' being the default.

• CAS_USERNAME_ATTRIBUTE: The CAS user name attribute from response. The default is uid.

• CAS_PROXY_CALLBACK: The full url to the callback view if you want to retrive a Proxy Granting Ticket

Make sure your project knows how to log users in and out by adding these to your URL mappings:

(r'^accounts/login$', 'django_cas_ng.views.login'),
(r'^accounts/logout$', 'django_cas_ng.views.logout'),

You should also add an URL mapping for the CAS_PROXY_CALLBACK settings:

(r'^accounts/callback$', 'django_cas_ng.views.callback'),

Run ./manage.py syncdb to create Single Sign On and Proxy Granting Ticket tables. On update you can just delete the django_cas_ng_sessionticket table and the django_cas_ng_proxygrantingticket before calling ./manage.py syncdb.

Consider running the command ./manage.py django_cas_ng_clean_sessions on a regular basis right after the command ./manage.py clearsessions cf clearsessions. It could be a good idea to put it in the crontab.

Users should now be able to log into your site using CAS.

View-wrappers example

The settings.CAS_EXTRA_LOGIN_PARAMS allows you to define a static dictionary of extra parameters to be passed on to the CAS login page. But what if you want this dictionary to be dynamic (e.g. based on user session)?

Our current advice is to implement simple wrappers for our default views, like these ones:

from django_cas_ng import views as baseviews

@csrf_exempt
def login(request, **kwargs):
    return _add_locale(request, baseviews.login(request, **kwargs))


def logout(request, **kwargs):
    return _add_locale(request, baseviews.logout(request, **kwargs))


def _add_locale(request, response):
    """If the given HttpResponse is a redirect to CAS, then add the proper
    `locale` parameter to it (and return the modified response). If not, simply
    return the original response."""

    if (
        isinstance(response, HttpResponseRedirect)
        and response['Location'].startswith(settings.CAS_SERVER_URL)
    ):
        from ourapp.some_module import get_currently_used_language
        url = response['Location']
        url += '&' if '?' in url else '&'
        url += "locale=%s" % get_currently_used_language(request)
        response['Location'] = url
    return response

Signals

django_cas_ng.signals.cas_user_authenticated

Sent on successful authentication, the CASBackend will fire the cas_user_authenticated signal.

Arguments sent with this signal

sender

The authentication backend instance that authenticated the user.

user

The user instance that was just authenticated.

created

Boolean as to whether the user was just created.

attributes

Attributes returned during by the CAS during authentication.

ticket

The ticket used to authenticate the user with the CAS.

service

The service used to authenticate the user with the CAS.

Proxy Granting Ticket

If you want your application to be able to issue Proxy Ticket to authenticate against some other CAS application, setup the CAS_PROXY_CALLBACK parameter. Allow on the CAS config django_cas_ng to act as a Proxy application. Then after a user has logged in using the CAS, you can retrieve a Proxy Ticket as follow:

from django_cas_ng.models import ProxyGrantingTicket

def my_pretty_view(request, ...):

proxy_ticket = ProxyGrantingTicket.retrieve_pt(request, service)

where service is the service url for which you want a proxy ticket.

Internationalization

You can contribute to the translation of welcome messages by running django-admin makemessages -l lang_code inside of the django_cas_ng directory. Where lang_code is the language code for which you want to submit a translation. Then open the file django_cas_ng/locale/lang_code/LC_MESSAGES/django.po with a gettex translations editor (for example https://poedit.net/). Translate and save the file. Think to add django_cas_ng/locale/lang_code/LC_MESSAGES/django.po and django_cas_ng/locale/lang_code/LC_MESSAGES/django.mo to your commit.

Testing

Every code commit triggers a travis-ci build. checkout current build status at https://travis-ci.org/mingchen/django-cas-ng

Testing is managed by pytest and tox. Before run install, you need install required packages for testing:

pip install -r requirements-dev.txt

To run testing on locally:

py.test

To run all testing on all enviroments locally:

tox

Contribution

Contributions are welcome!

If you would like to contribute this project. Please feel free to fork and send pull request. Please make sure tests are passed. Also welcome to add your name to Credits section of this document.

New code should follow both PEP8 and the Django coding style.

Credits

• django-cas
• Stefan Horomnea
• Piotr Buliński
• Piper Merriam
• Nathan Brown
• Jason Brownbridge
• Bryce Groff
• Jeffrey P Gill
• timkung1
• Domingo Yeray Rodríguez Martín
• Rayco Abad-Martín
• Édouard Lopez
• Guillaume Vincent
• Wojciech Rygielski
• Valentin Samir

References

• django-cas
• CAS protocol
• Jasig CAS server