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| author | Gary Wilson Jr <gary.wilson@gmail.com> | 2009-03-15 05:54:28 +0000 |
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| committer | Gary Wilson Jr <gary.wilson@gmail.com> | 2009-03-15 05:54:28 +0000 |
| commit | b994387d8d9ff3b19d3ab04d3b4ac69d5dd68ea2 (patch) | |
| tree | 3fabfa4d7996c918d0e73bc8aa3c08f644a9ca97 /docs/topics/auth.txt | |
| parent | 7be4b9a4c005639f03fcd096c3a53fffcb7f210c (diff) | |
Fixed #689 -- Added a middleware and authentication backend to contrib.auth for supporting external authentication solutions. Thanks to all who contributed to this patch, including Ian Holsman, garthk, Koen Biermans, Marc Fargas, ekarulf, and Ramiro Morales.
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@10063 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/topics/auth.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/topics/auth.txt b/docs/topics/auth.txt index 9759ed821d..47405dd875 100644 --- a/docs/topics/auth.txt +++ b/docs/topics/auth.txt @@ -1263,10 +1263,13 @@ administrator and the users themselves if users had separate accounts in LDAP and the Django-based applications. So, to handle situations like this, the Django authentication system lets you -plug in another authentication sources. You can override Django's default +plug in other authentication sources. You can override Django's default database-based scheme, or you can use the default system in tandem with other systems. +See the :ref:`authentication backend reference <ref-authentication-backends>` +for information on the authentication backends included with Django. + Specifying authentication backends ---------------------------------- |