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authorPreston Holmes <preston@ptone.com>2012-10-02 04:19:44 -0700
committerPreston Holmes <preston@ptone.com>2012-10-02 06:42:05 -0700
commit5f8b97f9fb058e5e02f1f99423fc3b0020ecdeb0 (patch)
treeb99aaca38477fcdcb83d3776c534ebd1d39be88b /docs
parent4c75344cc1d3c74ed73b7a8d6aab92a173afe8f5 (diff)
Fixed #19057 -- support custom user models in mod_wsgi auth handler
thanks @freakboy3742 for the catch and review
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diff --git a/docs/howto/deployment/wsgi/apache-auth.txt b/docs/howto/deployment/wsgi/apache-auth.txt
index d6594d194f..5f700f1cb3 100644
--- a/docs/howto/deployment/wsgi/apache-auth.txt
+++ b/docs/howto/deployment/wsgi/apache-auth.txt
@@ -14,6 +14,14 @@ version >= 2.2 and mod_wsgi >= 2.0. For example, you could:
* Allow certain users to connect to a WebDAV share created with mod_dav_.
+.. note::
+ If you have installed a :ref:`custom User model <auth-custom-user>` and
+ want to use this default auth handler, it must support an `is_active`
+ attribute. If you want to use group based authorization, your custom user
+ must have a relation named 'groups', referring to a related object that has
+ a 'name' field. You can also specify your own custom mod_wsgi
+ auth handler if your custom cannot conform to these requirements.
+
.. _Subversion: http://subversion.tigris.org/
.. _mod_dav: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_dav.html