remoteuserauthenticationpolicy

When this directive is used, authentication information is obtained from a REMOTE_USER key in the WSGI environment, assumed to be set by a WSGI server or an upstream middleware component.

Attributes

environ_key

The environ_key is the name that will be used to obtain the remote user value from the WSGI environment. It defaults to REMOTE_USER.

callback

The callback is a Python dotted name to a function passed the string representing the remote user and the request as positional arguments. The callback is expected to return None if the user represented by the string doesn't exist or a sequence of group identifiers (possibly empty) if the user does exist. If callback is None, the userid will be assumed to exist with no groups. It defaults to None.

Example

1<remoteuserauthenticationpolicy
2 environ_key="REMOTE_USER"
3 callback=".somemodule.somefunc"
4 />

Alternatives

You may create an instance of the pyramid.authentication.RemoteUserAuthenticationPolicy and pass it to the pyramid.config.Configurator constructor as the authentication_policy argument during initial application configuration.

See Also

See also Built-In Authentication Policy ZCML Directives and pyramid.authentication.RemoteUserAuthenticationPolicy.