RemoteUser Authentication Backend for ReviewBoard

This extension provides support for extracting username from REMOTE_USER CGI variable for ReviewBoard, makes it possible to use OpenId Connect along side with ReviewBoard (via libapache2-mod-openidc)

Requirements

ReviewBoard >= 2.0 and tested under v3.0.14

Quick Start

First, install this extension:

git clone https://github.com/vivimice/rbremoteuser.git
cd rbremoteuser
sudo python setup.py install

Second, enable rbremote.RemoteUserMiddleware in your site's conf/settings_local.py：

# RemoteUser Authentication Middleware is required by rbremoteuser.RemoteUserAuthBackend
RB_EXTRA_MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = ['rbremoteuser.RemoteUserMiddleware']

Last, restart your webserver to take effect.

Use

After proper installation, RemoteUser backend will appear on administration - Authentication backends drop list. Select it and save.

Advanced

If you want to authenticate some account by built-in authentication backend (for web api usage for example), you can put these usernames in LocalUsers settings (comma-seperated)

Limitations

• Logout is not working. (We cannot clear REMOTE_USER variable passed by Webserver)
• Registration and password change is not supported. (We don't save user and password information)