How to log out a user

[Torsten Bronger]

Hallöchen!

I know that there is a logout(request) routine, but how to program a
logout(user) routine?

Background: Every night, a cronjob iterates over all active users
in our Django deployment and checks whether they can still be found
in our LDAP directory. Every user that is not found anymore is set
to inactive. Unfortunately, this is not enough, he or she must be
logged out. But how to do that?

Tschö,
Torsten.

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[François Schiettecatte]

You should take a look at sessions:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/http/sessions/

You can arbitrarily remove sessions regardless of expiration which will log out the user.

François

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[Nikolas Stevenson-Molnar]

Unfortunately, you can't look up sessions by user, so you've have to
load every active session and see if its for the user you wish to
logout. Alternatively, you could create your own mapping of users to
sessions, or add some middleware that verifies the user is active on
every request, and signs them out if not (so the logout wouldn't happen
during the cron job, but rather the first time they try to access the
site after being marked inactive).

_Nik