Custom middleware?

[David Chandek-Stark]

Hi,

Is it possible/supported to implement a custom Django middleware component for the dashboard app?

Thanks,

David

[Jesús García Crespo]

Hi David,

It's totally possible but you'll have to make changes to the source code. If you're installing from the packages that may be not be a good idea. However, you could build your own packages or install from a git repository of yours where you keep your own customizations. The advantage of using a git repo is that it'll be much easier for you to pull from upstream when we release a new version of Archivematica, deal with code conflicts, etc...

Don't hesitate to ask more questions.

Regards,

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[David Chandek-Stark]

Thanks, Jesús. Actually, what I want to do is described in the Django docs: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/howto/auth-remote-user/.

It would be nice not to have to fork the code just to be able to implement this functionality. However, if that's the best way to do it at this time, that's probably OK.

--David

On Tuesday, February 21, 2017 at 3:34:59 PM UTC-5, Jesús García Crespo wrote:

Hi David,

It's totally possible but you'll have to make changes to the source code. If you're installing from the packages that may be not be a good idea. However, you could build your own packages or install from a git repository of yours where you keep your own customizations. The advantage of using a git repo is that it'll be much easier for you to pull from upstream when we release a new version of Archivematica, deal with code conflicts, etc...

Don't hesitate to ask more questions.

Regards,

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 8:58 AM, David Chandek-Stark <dchand...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

Is it possible/supported to implement a custom Django middleware component for the dashboard app?

Thanks,

David

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[Justin Simpson]

Hi David,

That sounds like something that a couple of other Archivematica users are talking about implementing.  One use case I have heard about is integrating to shibboleth, using https://github.com/nginx-shib, the other is ldap integration with something like https://github.com/nginxinc/nginx-ldap-auth, in both cases connecting to some django middleware in both the archivematica dashboard and the archivematica storage service.

Is this close to your use case?  Are you interested in describing your use case/idea a bit more? 

Justin Simpson
Director of Archivematica Technical Services
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[David Chandek-Stark]

Hi Justin,

We use Shibboleth with Apache 2.4. I have used the Django middleware previously (a few years ago) with this setup and it works seamlessly. There really wasn't a need to deal with Shibboleth directly since it sets REMOTE_USER. The main thing is being able to auto-login with the REMOTE_USER id. The password on the account can be set to an "unusable password" to prevent bypassing Shib.

Does that give you enough info?

Thanks,

David