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djangosaml-2.0
KVISH
KVISH

Reputation: 13208

SAML with Django authentication

I'm using Django and nginx hosted on AWS. I'm trying to integrate with a university for SAML authentication, using their idp. There are plenty of outdated answers on SO, but is there anything more relevant with current standards?

Many of the apps i've seen are for django 1.2 and lower. Specifically i'm looking for resources that would allow me to more easily manage the SAML authentication through some middleware or anything else.

Some of the things I have seen are:

https://github.com/unomena/django-saml2-idp

https://github.com/WiserTogether/django-saml2-sp

Upvotes: 18

Views: 28861

Answers (5)

Mehrdad Salimi
Mehrdad Salimi

Reputation: 1426

As far as I checked the current repos, this one is working and maintained properly: https://github.com/grafana/django-saml2-auth

Upvotes: 0

mecampbellsoup
mecampbellsoup

Reputation: 1501

This library is actively maintained: https://github.com/onelogin/python3-saml/tree/master/demo-django

Upvotes: 1

Felix
Felix

Reputation: 1910

Hi I just created a django saml2 authentication plugin.

https://github.com/fangli/django-saml2-auth

It's quite easy to integrate with your SAML2 provider, hope you enjoy.

Upvotes: 5

KVISH
KVISH

Reputation: 13208

The project I found is below:

https://bitbucket.org/lgs/djangosaml2/overview

The project uses psaml2 for SAML support. Pysaml2 can be found here:

https://github.com/rohe/pysaml2

Bear in mind that djangosaml2 may not use the latest version of pysaml2. I tested it and its working fine.

UPDATE

djangosaml2 works with latest version of pysaml2, but make sure to add this line to make it work:

SESSION_SERIALIZER = 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer'

This should be in your settings.py.

Upvotes: 12

woloski
woloski

Reputation: 2873

SAML is two sides:

  • IDP -> Identity Provider side -> i.e. the university
  • SP -> Service Provider -> i.e. your application

Sounds like this one is what you want: https://github.com/WiserTogether/django-saml2-sp.

You have to take into account that SAML as a standard is complex, so you might find issues getting the library talk to the SAML implementation in the university. You will also have to get from them the identity provider cert public key and ask them to add your application on their side with a specific entity id. And when you start managing a couple of them it gets complex.

You might also want to check out something like Auth0 to handle all those SAML connections. There is a very simple python sample https://gist.github.com/woloski/8149412

Upvotes: 6

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