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awegawef
awegawef

Reputation: 293

GAE User registry without Google Accounts, want to restric to specific domain

I am planning on creating an application for the students of my school, and I want to restrict user registration to emails of the form [email protected]. I would prefer to not manually create the user table and do the password hashing and such. Are there any libraries you can recommend for this?

Thanks for the help.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 252

Answers (2)

Lomefin
Lomefin

Reputation: 1262

Sometimes, if you just send the user to a login screen you will end in a redirect loop if the user is already logged with a Google Account. What i have found to be a good answer to this problem is to redirect the user to a log out page so he can later login with the domain you want.

I have used this for my code

user = users.get_current_user()

#Check if the user is in @mydomain.com

if user:
    emailDomain = user.email().split("@")
    if emailDomain[1] == "mydomain.com":
        return True
    else:
        self.redirect(users.create_logout_url('/startPage'))
else:
    self.redirect(users.create_login_url(self.request.uri))

This way, the application logs you out automatically and asks for your domain credentials

Upvotes: 2

Remy Vanherweghem
Remy Vanherweghem

Reputation: 3955

Since you said you don't know how the email are registered, that you don't want to manage a login/password database and you just need a regexp or somethings (I quote here!), I assume you could keep it very simple. Something like.

user = users.get_current_user()
  if user:
    emailDomain = user.email().split("@")
    if emailDomain == "yourschool.edu":
      doSomething()

That way, all the trouble of registering to your app is given to the users (who will need to get a Google Account).

Upvotes: 0

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