* Add HTTP header authentiation backend/middleware
* Add docs for remote header auth
* Improve docs on external auth
* Add warning for unknown REMOTE_USER_HEADER_TYPE
* Move active check for header auth to middleware
Add extra header type sanity check to the backend
* Add test cases for remote header login
* Improve header-based authentication
- remove the 'ID' mode
- add CustomHeaderBackend to AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS conditionally
- rewrite CustomHeaderBackend and CustomHeaderMiddleware to
use less inherited code
- add more test cases
Co-authored-by: Pēteris Caune <[email protected]>
User handle is used in a username-less authentication, to map a
credential received from browser with an user account in the
database. Since we only use security keys as a second factor,
the user handle is not of much use to us.
The user handle:
- must not be blank,
- must not be a constant value,
- must not contain personally identifiable information.
So we use random bytes, and don't store them on our end.
Planning to use it for sensitive operations (add/remove security keys),
change email, change password, close account.
The decorator sends a six-digit confirmation code to user's email
and renders a form for entering it back. If the user enters the
correct code, the decorators sets a sudo=active marker in
user's session, valid for 30 minutes.
When sending email using Django's default email
backend (SMTP), and if there is a network issue, the backend
can throw SMTPServerDisconnected.
This commit adds a retry logic which retries sending the
email two times when SMTPServerDisconnected is thrown.