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  • Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
  • Author(s): Jamie Strandboge
  • Date: 2010-10-12 11:34:35 UTC
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* SECURITY UPDATE: XSS in CSRF protections. New upstream release
  - CVE-2010-3082
* debian/patches/01_disable_url_verify_regression_tests.diff:
  - updated to disable another test that fails without internet connection
  - patch based on work by Kai Kasurinen and Krzysztof Klimonda
* debian/control: don't Build-Depends on locales-all, which doesn't exist
  in maverick

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Authentication backends
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This document details the authentication backends that come with Django. For
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information on how to use them and how to write your own authentication
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backends, see the :ref:`Other authentication sources section
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<authentication-backends>` of the :ref:`User authentication guide
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<topics-auth>`.
 
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<authentication-backends>` of the :doc:`User authentication guide
 
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Available authentication backends
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    Use this backend to take advantage of external-to-Django-handled
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    authentication.  It authenticates using usernames passed in
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    :attr:`request.META['REMOTE_USER'] <django.http.HttpRequest.META>`.  See
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    the :ref:`Authenticating against REMOTE_USER <howto-auth-remote-user>`
 
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    the :doc:`Authenticating against REMOTE_USER </howto/auth-remote-user>`
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    documentation.