Commit 465980d0 authored by Tim Graham's avatar Tim Graham
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Added RemoteUserMiddleware to middleware reference page.

parent 4e3d8ae6

docs/howto/auth-remote-user.txt

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Configuration

=============



.. class:: django.contrib.auth.middleware.RemoteUserMiddleware



First, you must add the

:class:`django.contrib.auth.middleware.RemoteUserMiddleware` to the

:setting:`MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES` setting **after** the

:class:`django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware`::



    MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (

        ...

        '...',

        'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',

        'django.contrib.auth.middleware.RemoteUserMiddleware',

        ...

        '...',

    )



Next, you must replace the :class:`~django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend`

docs/ref/middleware.txt

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every incoming ``HttpRequest`` object. See :ref:`Authentication in Web requests

<auth-web-requests>`.



.. class:: RemoteUserMiddleware



Middleware for utilizing Web server provided authentication. See

:doc:`/howto/auth-remote-user` for usage details.



.. class:: SessionAuthenticationMiddleware



.. versionadded:: 1.7