pyams-auth-remote

=================================== PyAMS remote authentication package

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What is PyAMS?

PyAMS (Pyramid Application Management Suite) is a small suite of packages written for applications and content management with the Pyramid framework.

PyAMS is actually mainly used to manage web sites through content management applications (CMS, see PyAMS_content package), but many features are generic and can be used inside any kind of web application.

All PyAMS documentation is available on ReadTheDocs <https://pyams.readthedocs.io>; source code is available on Gitlab <https://gitlab.com/pyams> and pushed to Github <https://github.com/py-ams>_. Doctests are available in the doctests source folder.

What is PyAMS remote authentication?

PyAMS remote authentication package is an extension package for PyAMS which allows usage of REMOTE_USER environment variable as a principal identifier. This environment variable can be set, for example, by Apache SSL module, by extracting identity from incoming certificate.

Changelog

2.1.2

• added debug option to set remote user from OS environment variable instead of request environment variable

2.1.1

• added support for Python 3.12

2.1.0

• added settings option pyams_auth_remote.mode to use an HTTP header instead of an environment variable

2.0.4

• corrected typo in plugin class name

2.0.3

• tag mismatch

2.0.2

• add "pre-authenticated" attribute to credentials

2.0.1

• updated translation

2.0.0

• initial release