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Integrate django-cas-ng with Django admin site authentication

Integrate django-cas-ng with Django admin site authentication

Problem

I’m using django-cas-ng framework to authenticate users. The main problem is that the admin page still uses the default login view. Methods used this far: 1.- Using env var

From docs:

CAS_ADMIN_PREFIX: The URL prefix of the Django administration site. If undefined, the CAS middleware will check the view being rendered to see if it lives in django.contrib.admin.views.

2.- Redirecting url on app/urls.py:

url(r'^arta/admin/login$', django_cas_ng.views.login, name=‘cas_ng_login’) Everything is just ignored and the admin login form is shown.

The goal of this is to only authenticate with CAS and redirect the current /app/admin/login to CAS

Since CAS is used for single sign on, use django-cas-ng to replace Django admin site’s login page is total make sense and can improve user experience.

Solution

The solution was overriding AdminSite. Django admin module overrides it’s own url redirects, so editing them on app/urls.py was useless.

Creating an app/admin.py and extending AdminSite to override admin_view and get_urls:

from django.contrib.admin import AdminSite
from functools import update_wrapper
from django.urls import NoReverseMatch, reverse
from django.views.decorators.cache import never_cache
from django.views.decorators.csrf import csrf_protect
from django.http import Http404, HttpResponseRedirect
import django_cas_ng.views


class Admin(AdminSite):
    def admin_view(self, view, cacheable=False):
        """
        Decorator to create an admin view attached to this ``AdminSite``. This
        wraps the view and provides permission checking by calling
        ``self.has_permission``.

        You'll want to use this from within ``AdminSite.get_urls()``:

            class MyAdminSite(AdminSite):

                def get_urls(self):
                    from django.conf.urls import url

                    urls = super(MyAdminSite, self).get_urls()
                    urls += [
                        url(r'^my_view/$', self.admin_view(some_view))
                    ]
                    return urls

        By default, admin_views are marked non-cacheable using the
        ``never_cache`` decorator. If the view can be safely cached, set
        cacheable=True.
        """
        def inner(request, *args, **kwargs):
            if not self.has_permission(request):
                if request.path == reverse('cas_ng_logout', current_app=self.name):
                    index_path = reverse('admin:index', current_app=self.name)
                    return HttpResponseRedirect(index_path)
                # Inner import to prevent django.contrib.admin (app) from
                # importing django.contrib.auth.models.User (unrelated model).
                from django.contrib.auth.views import redirect_to_login
                return redirect_to_login(
                    request.get_full_path(),
                    reverse('cas_ng_login', current_app=self.name)
                )
            return view(request, *args, **kwargs)
        if not cacheable:
            inner = never_cache(inner)
        # We add csrf_protect here so this function can be used as a utility
        # function for any view, without having to repeat 'csrf_protect'.
        if not getattr(view, 'csrf_exempt', False):
            inner = csrf_protect(inner)
        return update_wrapper(inner, view)

    def get_urls(self):
        from django.conf.urls import url, include
        # Since this module gets imported in the application's root package,
        # it cannot import models from other applications at the module level,
        # and django.contrib.contenttypes.views imports ContentType.
        from django.contrib.contenttypes import views as contenttype_views

        def wrap(view, cacheable=False):
            def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
                return self.admin_view(view, cacheable)(*args, **kwargs)
            wrapper.admin_site = self
            return update_wrapper(wrapper, view)

        # Admin-site-wide views.
        urlpatterns = [
            url(r'^$', wrap(self.index), name='index'),
            url(r'^login/$', django_cas_ng.views.login, name='login'),
            url(r'^logout/$', django_cas_ng.views.logout, name='logout'),
            url(r'^password_change/$', wrap(self.password_change, cacheable=True), name='password_change'),
            url(r'^password_change/done/$', wrap(self.password_change_done, cacheable=True),
                name='password_change_done'),
            url(r'^jsi18n/$', wrap(self.i18n_javascript, cacheable=True), name='jsi18n'),
            url(r'^r/(?P<content_type_id>\d+)/(?P<object_id>.+)/$', wrap(contenttype_views.shortcut),
                name='view_on_site'),
        ]

        # Add in each model's views, and create a list of valid URLS for the
        # app_index
        valid_app_labels = []
        for model, model_admin in self._registry.items():
            urlpatterns += [
                url(r'^%s/%s/' % (model._meta.app_label, model._meta.model_name), include(model_admin.urls)),
            ]
            if model._meta.app_label not in valid_app_labels:
                valid_app_labels.append(model._meta.app_label)

        # If there were ModelAdmins registered, we should have a list of app
        # labels for which we need to allow access to the app_index view,
        if valid_app_labels:
            regex = r'^(?P<app_label>' + '|'.join(valid_app_labels) + ')/$'
            urlpatterns += [
                url(regex, wrap(self.app_index), name='app_list'),
            ]
        return urlpatterns

site = Admin()

The interesting lines are:

admin_view:

 if request.path == reverse('cas_ng_logout', current_app=self.name):
    reverse('cas_ng_login', current_app=self.name)

get_urls:

url(r'^login/$', django_cas_ng.views.login, name='login'),
url(r'^logout/$', django_cas_ng.views.logout, name='logout')

That will let you redirect the login and logout steps into CAS.

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