django-admin-external-auth

Use your Django project's existing authentication views in the admin interface.

Dependencies

Requires Django 1.7 or later.

Installation

Download from the Python Package Index with pip install django-admin-external-auth. Or download the source from GitHub and install with python setup.py install.

Configuration

In your Django project's settings file, under INSTALLED_APPS, find 'django.contrib.admin' and replace it with 'django.contrib.admin.apps.SimpleAdminConfig'.

In your Django project's root URLconf, add the following lines somewhere before the first reference to admin.site:

from daeauth import AdminSiteWithExternalAuth
admin.site = AdminSiteWithExternalAuth()
admin.autodiscover()

And that's it.