Django + Google SSO openid

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Django + Google SSO openid

Hi, I would like to have my application http://app.acquee.com/designer to accept a google account as a login. I found a bunch of libs for django but most work on top of existing Django authentication system that I do not use. I have my own set of user tables where I keep user info and privileges.

Any suggestion on how to integrate that with the Google Openid?

Seems I will have to do it manually using python-openid. Or could I use django-openid? However, with the latter, I don't even know how to issue the discover command.

Regardless, I get stuck on google's step 5, sending a login authentication request (optionally with OAuth parameters) to the provided endpoint address. Can someone provide a sample request? is it a GET/POST? content?

Cheers

You can try https://launchpad.net/django-openid-auth - I'm using it in a commercial project, for both regular Google Accounts and Google Apps accounts. I remember that it was the most convincing one at the time I was doing a review, although I can't give you any details now due to my short memory. Anyway - it's working great.

Tomasz Zielinski 2010-09-22 21:16:54

Tomasz, are you using it with built in Django authentication or your custom one? As far as I understood, django-openid-auth only works with built in Django user management...

Rok 2010-09-23 08:41:28

Ah, sorry, I overlooked that part about not using Django user system. Writing this - why are you not using it? You can always use custom user profiles to store any additional data you might need. And if you really don't want to use `django.contrib.auth`, then yes, you probably have to go the low-level way and speak directly to python-openid (or django-openid, but I'm not sure of this one, never used it, just quickly scanned its source code).

Tomasz Zielinski 2010-09-23 09:58:47

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