Persona Authentication

[Doug Latornell]

There has been a bunch of activity lately around using Mozilla Persona [1] for authentication in Pyramid projects.

Georges Dubus released the pyramid_persona library on PyPI [2] and GitHub [3] and blogged about it [4].

Ryan Kelly blogged [5] about using pyramid_persona in combination with MAC access authentication to facilitate authentication by both people and machines.

And I elaborated on Georges' work with a blog post [6] about hooking up Persona authentication and group-level security, and a demo project on Bitbucket [7].

I'm thinking that the auth section of the Cookbook needs a section about Persona. If there are no objections, I'll start small and do a pull request for a paragraph or two like the OpenID ones with links to this collection of posts and projects.

[1] http://www.mozilla.org/persona/
[2] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyramid_persona
[3] https://github.com/madjar/pyramid_persona
[4] http://compiletoi.net/quick-authentication-on-pyramid-with-persona.html
[5] http://www.rfk.id.au/blog/entry/securing-pyramid-persona-macauth/
[6] http://douglatornell.ca/blog/2012/10/27/pyramid-persona-group-level-auth
[7] https://bitbucket.org/douglatornell/pyramid_persona_group_auth_demo

[John Nowlan]

Doug,

 

The more docs, the merrier, imho.

 

When I glanced over the Persona docs a couple of weeks ago, what I wanted to see, that I didn’t, was more docs on integrating with 3^rd party systems. I.e. if you already are using a system to do authentication (especially windows, let’s say), how could you integrate with Persona.

 

My .02

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[Doug Latornell]

On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 11:06 AM, John Nowlan <john_...@carleton.ca> wrote:

Doug,

 

The more docs, the merrier, imho.

 

When I glanced over the Persona docs a couple of weeks ago, what I wanted to see, that I didn’t, was more docs on integrating with 3^rd party systems. I.e. if you already are using a system to do authentication (especially windows, let’s say), how could you integrate with Persona.

I wonder if the pyramid_multiauth library (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyramid_multiauth) that Ryan mentions in his post might help with that.