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edxauthbackends 4.3.0

auth-backends
This package contains custom authentication backends, views, and pipeline steps used by edX services for single sign-on.
This package is compatible with Python 3.8, Django 2.2 and Django 3.0
We currently support OAuth 2.0 authentication. Support for OpenID Connect (OIDC) was removed as of version 3.0. Use version 2.x if you require OIDC and are not able to migrate to OAuth2.

Installation
The auth_backends package can be installed from PyPI using pip:
$ pip install edx-auth-backends
Update INSTALLED_APPS:
INSTALLED_APPS = (
'social_django',
)

Configuration
Adding single sign-on/out support to a service requires a few changes:

Define settings
Add the authentication backend
Add the login/logout redirects

OAuth 2.0 Settings

Setting
Purpose

SOCIAL_AUTH_EDX_OAUTH2_KEY
Client key

SOCIAL_AUTH_EDX_OAUTH2_SECRET
Client secret

SOCIAL_AUTH_EDX_OAUTH2_URL_ROOT
LMS root, reachable from the application server
(e.g. https://courses.stage.edx.org or http://edx.devstack.lms:18000)

SOCIAL_AUTH_EDX_OAUTH2_PUBLIC_URL_ROOT
LMS root, reachable from the end user’s browser
(e.g. https://courses.stage.edx.org or http://localhost:18000)

SOCIAL_AUTH_EDX_OAUTH2_JWS_HMAC_SIGNING_KEY
(Optional) Shared secret for JWT signed with HS512 algorithm

SOCIAL_AUTH_EDX_OAUTH2_PROVIDER_CONFIGURATION_CACHE_TTL
(Optional) Cache timeout for provider configuration. Defaults to 1 week.

SOCIAL_AUTH_EDX_OAUTH2_JWKS_CACHE_TTL
(Optional) Cache timeout for provider’s JWKS key data. Defaults to 1 day.

OAuth2 Applications require access to the user_id scope in order for the EdXOAuth2 backend to work. The backend will write the user_id into the social-auth extra_data, and can be accessed within the User model as follows:
self.social_auth.first().extra_data[u'user_id'] # pylint: disable=no-member

Strategy
We use a custom strategy that includes many of
the default settings necessary to utilize single sign-on for edX services. This strategy should be used for all
services to simplify configuration. If you need to override the defaults, you may still do so as you would with any
social auth setting——prepend SOCIAL_AUTH_ to the setting name. Add the following to your Django settings to use the
strategy:
SOCIAL_AUTH_STRATEGY = 'auth_backends.strategies.EdxDjangoStrategy'

Authentication Backend
Configuring the backend is simply a matter of updating the AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS setting. The configuration
below is sufficient for all edX services.
AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
'auth_backends.backends.EdXOAuth2',
'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',
)

Authentication Views
In order to make use of the authentication backend, your service’s login/logout views need to be updated. The login
view should be updated to redirect to the authentication provider’s login page. The logout view should be updated to
redirect to the authentication provider’s logout page.
This package includes views and urlpatterns configured for OAuth 2.0. To use them, simply append/prepend
oauth2_urlpatterns to your service’s urlpatterns in urls.py.
from auth_backends.urls import oauth2_urlpatterns

urlpatterns = oauth2_urlpatterns + [
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
...
]
It is recommended that you not modify the login view. If, however, you need to modify the logout view (to redirect to
a different URL, for example), you can subclass EdxOAuth2LogoutView for
the view and LogoutViewTestMixin for your tests.

Testing
Call make test.

Publishing a Release
After a PR merges, create a new tag from master branch with a new version of the package and create a
Github release
using the new tag that will automatically publish the package to PyPi when a release is created.

License
The code in this repository is licensed under the AGPL unless otherwise noted.
Please see LICENSE.txt for details.

How To Contribute
Contributions are very welcome!
Please read How To Contribute for details.

Reporting Security Issues
Please do not report security issues in public. Please email security@openedx.org.

Mailing List and IRC Channel
You can discuss this code on the edx-code Google Group or in the
#edx-code IRC channel on Freenode.

History

3.1.0 (2020-05-08)

Added support for python 3.8
Removed support for Django versions older than 2.2

3.0.2 (2020-02-06)
Re-release of 3.0.0 with proper version, matching tag.

3.0.1 (2020-02-06)
Re-release of 3.0.0, although failed to update package version.

3.0.0 (2020-02-06)

Add support for Django 2 and drop support for some older versions (support changes from 1.8–1.11 to 1.11–2.2)
Remove (deprecated) OpenID Connect support
Test with Python 3.5, not 3.6, to match rest of edX code

2.0.2 (2019-08-12)
Two new commits that changed functionality:

Add EdXOAuth2.auth_complete_signal on auth_complete()
Store refresh_token in extra_data

2.0.1 (2019-05-13)
Create new Version for auth-backends for release

2.0.0 (2019-03-28)
EdXOAuth2 will retrieve and store user_id claim
The EdXOAuth2 backend will now pull the user_id from the JWT and
store it in the UserSocialAuth.extra_data field.
BREAKING CHANGE: The user_id scope is now required when using the
EdXOAuth2 backend for oAuth+SSO. This means that the oauth
application must first be configured to have access to the user_id
scope, which is not available by default.

1.2.2 (2019-01-31)
Updates to the EdXOAuth2 backend:

Supports the _PUBLIC_URL_ROOT social django setting.
logout_url() allows _LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL to be undefined.

1.2.1 (2018-10-26)
Fix urlencode bug with EdXOAuth2 backend logout url

1.2.0 (2018-10-26)
Allow for logout redirect with EdXOAuth2 backend.

1.1.5 (2018-10-19)
Add logout_url property to EdXOAuth2 backend.

1.1.4 (2018-10-12)
Remove token validation from EdXOAuth2 backend.

1.1.3 (2018-01-04)
Added support to update email address.
social_core consider email field protected and won’t let it change.
Added a pipeline function to update email address.

1.1.2 (2017-05-12)
Updated LoginRedirectBaseView to include querystring

[unlisted]
Intervening releases not documented here; see Releases:
https://github.com/openedx/auth-backends/releases?after=1.1.2

0.1.3 (2015-03-31)

Update required version of Python Social Auth to 0.2.3.

0.1.2 (2015-02-23)

Update required version of Python Social Auth to 0.2.2.

0.1.1 (2015-02-20)

Initial release.

Renzo Lucioni <renzo@edx.org>
Troy Sankey <tsankey@edx.org>