Does REMOTE_USER work with django-wiki?

[jtaylor___]

Does anyone know if REMOTE_USER works with django-wiki?

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/howto/auth-remote-user/

TIA

[Benjamin Balder Bach]

Hi TIA,

The answer is unfortunately no -- but a PR is very welcome.

I am not sure if this is easy or complicated complicated to achieve? If you want to discuss a solution, you are most welcome. The wiki expects some kind of User object to exist that connects to the Article and Plugin Revision history.

Best,
Ben

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[jtaylor___]

OK.  I don't know Django well enough to write a fix myself.

My use case for django-wiki is for an internal page and rather than setting up users within Django, I wanted to simply use the Windows authentication coming from their browser.

Thank you

[Benjamin Balder Bach]

Hello again,

Looking at other sources, it seems you might be able to add your own middleware layer that creates a normal User object from the REMOTE_USER:

https://www.sipios.com/blog-tech/automatic-login-in-a-django-application-using-external-authentication

As such, you can solve the issue without needing to change django-wiki.

Best,
Ben

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[jtaylor___]

Thank you