2017-09-08 Django

Django Social Authentication

Django Social Authentication#

OAuth - Open standard of authentication between systems

First we need to generate oauth tokens on the source of truths site (in our case github)

Callback URL is the url the user is sent to after a user has been authorized

For all-auth it is:

http://127.0.0.1:8000/github/login/callback/

Client ID: bcefd842ae02f725686e Client Secret: 04dd2f3b170af8cdb11a5cde9f8ecc4bf7fc98db

pip install django-allauth

But better to just read the docs

Add AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS to settings.py:

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
    'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',
    'allauth.account.authbackends.AuthenticationBackend'
)

Add the following apps to INSTALLED_APPS:

'django.contrib.sites',
'allauth',
'allauth.account',
'allauth.socialauth',
'allauth.socialauth.providers.github',

Set SITE_ID to share authentication across domains:

SITE_ID = 1

Add allauth url’s:

url(r"^accounts/", include("allauth.urls")),

Migrate

Login to the django admin section and add a site with correct domain name

Add a social application

Add client is and client secret

Add template tags: {% import socialaccount %}

Add provider login:

<li><a href="{% provider_login_url 'github' %}" class="btn btn-simple">Your Account</a></li>

Add to settings.py:

ACCOUNT_EMAIL_REQUIRED = True
ACCOUNT_EMAIL_VERIFICATION = True
ACCOUNT_LOGIN_ON_EMAIL_CONFIRMATION = True

We will need to add some templates though