Is there django auth backend to authorize by temporary links?

Question

I am searching a backend to authorize users by email without password. This backend should send them temprary authentication links to an inbox.

Is there any solution or I should write it myself?

Answer 1

Nothing like such available, so i fear you have to write it yourself.

As i understand, you can take lets say an "authentication_code" from a url you sent to user's mailbox.

http://example.net/allow/xauthcodex/

You can get 'xauthcodex' in view, which will later call authenticate() and then login().

You would have to write your own authentication backend though, that will take this auth_code, will check against it, and would return respective user, for login() function to work. I am assuming auth_code is unique for user.

Answer 2

Check out the http://bitbucket.org/lorien/django-urlauth/

Answer 3

I already wrote such application: http://github.com/svetlyak40wt/django-link-auth