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On 3/02/2012 7:00am, Tim wrote:
> Thanks for all this great information. Thorsten, I do have hope that
> 'pam' will solve the problem, but if I get nowhere with that, Furbee's
> links and info will help me go further; I just didn't want the user to
> have to sign on twice when I don't really care about authentication,
> just user identification. In any case, I'm reading those docs now, and
> the blog article.
>
> David, I wish I could do this via the LDAP set up but as far as I can
> tell there isn't one.

You can.

If you accept that users will have to authenticate in your Django app 
then if you use ldap you won't have to worry about passwords at all. 
They will enter the same username and password they usually do when they 
power up their workstations.

I have used Peter Herndon's django-ldap-groups very successfully to do 
just that. It will create a new user including any ldap groups you set 
up for Django based entirely on successful ldap authentication. It will 
bring whatever ldap info across to Django that you require.

Mike

>
> thanks again!
> --Tim
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