[Grok-dev] megrok.login: substituting authenticator

[Aroldo Souza-Leite]

Hi Uli,

I hadn't read the 'megrok.login' documentation attentively enough, 
sorry, I'm doing it now.

I'm looking for a solution where I can keep using as much as possible 
of  'megrok.login', just replacing some sort of  megrok.login-default 
'athenticateCredentials' method somewhere by my own custom 
'authenticateCredentials'  method and leaving the rest untouched as long 
as the overall result is still logically consistent. Wait a little bit 
till I read more of the megrok.login code.

Thanks for megrok.login, which I've been using sucessfully,  and for the 
support in the mailinglist.

Regards,

Aroldo.


Uli Fouquet wrote:
> Hi Aroldo,
>
> Aroldo Souza-Leite wrote:
>
>   
>> I'm trying to substitute the 
>> 'authplugins.PrincipalRegistryAuthenticator' in 'megrok.loging' by 
>> another authenticator that uses an external database of users. I 
>> understand I have to model a class that implements 
>> 'IAuthenticatorPlugin'. But where do I tell 'megrok.login' to use the my 
>> custom authenticator?
>>     
>
> You have to write your own PAU setup and register it using
> `megrok.login.setup()`. For this you need an own setup function, roughly
> like this::
>
>  from zope.pluggableauth.plugins.session import SessionCredentialsPlugin
>
>  def customPAUSetup(site, pau, viewname=None, strict=None,
>                     autoregister=None):
>      """Setup our own PAU.
>      """
>      # Assuming your authenticator is registered as a named global 
>      # utility 'My custom authenticator plugin'
>      pau.authenticatorPlugins = ('My custom authenticator plugin', )
>      pau['custom_session'] = session = SessionCredentialsPlugin()
>      pau.credentialsPlugins = ('No Challenge if Authenticated',
>                                'custom_session',)
>      return
>
> and then register this setup like this::
>
>   import grok
>   import megrok.login
>
>   class CustomSetupApp(grok.Application, grok.Container):
>       megrok.login.enable()
>       megrok.login.setup(customPAUSetup)
>
> If you create a new application, the new PAU will be active.
> A more elaborate example of the setup is part of the docs in
>
> http://svn.zope.org/megrok.login/trunk/src/megrok/login/tests/custompausetup.py?view=markup
>
> Naturally, if you do so much things yourself, you might be better off
> dropping megrok.login and using the pluggableauth stuff directly.
>
> Best regards,
>
>