Flask-BasicAuth-LDAP

Flask-BasicAuth-LDAP

Flask-BasicAuth-LDAP is a Flask extension that provides an easy way to protect certain views of an application with LDAP_ and HTTP basic access authentication_

.. _LDAP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Directory_Access_Protocol .. _basic access authentication: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication

Install

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pip install flask-basicauth-ldap

Quickstart

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from flask import Flask, jsonify
from flask_basicauth_ldap import LDAPBasicAuth

app = Flask(__name__)
auth = LDAPBasicAuth(app)

app.config['LDAP_HOST'] = 'ldap://test_host'
app.config['LDAP_PORT'] = 'test_port'
app.config['LDAP_DOMAIN'] = 'test_domain'


@app.route('/secret', methods=['GET'])
@auth.required
def secret_view():
   return jsonify({'status': 'secret'})

If you want to change a response on the unauthorized access, just use unauthorizedhandler to register function that should return Response object

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@auth.unauthorizedhandler def custom_unathorized_view(): return jsonify({'message': 'Athorize first'}), 401