dataporten-auth

Dataporten is an authentication, authorization and API platform for higher and lower education and research in Norway. Dataporten offers authentication of users to applications using OAuth 2.0 and the OpenID Connect.

Dataporten-auth is a client for dataporten that depends on python-social-auth.

Installation

Install with pip or by downloading the source and running setup.py.

Usage

There needs to exist an entry for your site/app at dataporten. Log in to dataporten's dashboard and create an application.

You'll need to set the client id and client secret in the settings of your app/site, while the application at dataporten will need one or more redirect uris.

Both the name of the settings and the redirect uris depend on the plugins used. Add at least one of the plugins below. See python-social-auth's documentation for how.

The redirect uri is of the form <type>://<domainpath>/<suffix>/, where <type> is one of http or https, <domainpath> is the domain name of your site and an optional path, and the <suffix> is plugin-dependent. See the examples.

You can have several redirect-uris, and you will be needing at least one per plugin used.

dataporten.psa.DataportenOauth2

Plugin name

dataporten.psa.DataportenOauth2

Settings

Client id: SOCIAL_AUTH_DATAPORTEN_KEY

Client secret: SOCIAL_AUTH_DATAPORTEN_SECRET

Scopes needed

userid and profile, this is the default.

Username generated:

Unique, alphanumeric string. You might want to let users change this generated username. The plugin only cares that a username exists and won't change the username back.

Redirect-uri ends with

/complete/dataporten/

Example redirect uri:

http://127.0.0.1/complete/dataporten/

dataporten.psa.DataportenEmailOauth2

Plugin name

dataporten.psa.DataportenEmailOauth2

Settings

Client id: SOCIAL_AUTH_DATAPORTEN_EMAIL_KEY

Client secret: SOCIAL_AUTH_DATAPORTEN_EMAIL_SECRET

Scopes needed

email, this must be explicitly allowed in the dashboard.

Username generated:

From email-address

Redirect-uri ends with

/complete/dataporten_email/

Example redirect uri:

https://supersites.exmaple.net/mysite/complete/dataporten_email/

dataporten.psa.DataportenFeideOauth2

Plugin name

dataporten.psa.DataportenEmailOauth2

Settings

Client id: SOCIAL_AUTH_DATAPORTEN_FEIDE_KEY

Client secret: SOCIAL_AUTH_DATAPORTEN_FEIDE_SECRET

Scopes needed

userid-feide, this must be explicitly allowed in the dashboard.

Username generated:

From the Feide attribute eduPersonPrincipalName, which looks like an email address.

Redirect-uri ends with

/complete/dataporten_feide/

Example redirect uri:

https://example.com/cheatsheet/complete/dataporten_feide/

Demo

1. Get the source code
2. Install dependencies: pip install -r requirements/demo.txt
3. Make an application at dataporten
4. Edit the settings-file to set SOCIAL_AUTH_DATAPORTEN_KEY and SOCIAL_AUTH_DATAPORTEN_SECRET
5. Set three redirect-uris, all starting with http://127.0.0.1:8000
6. Run python mange.py runserver
7. Visit http://127.0.0.1:8000 in a fresh browser. Log out doesn't work (yet), so to reset, delete the file db.sqlite3 and run python mange.py runserver again

Optionally, you can add other python-social-auth plugins as well.