initial stab at an authentication middleware

2 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/sitelogin.py b/lib/sitelogin.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3edec7c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/sitelogin.py
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+from django.contrib.auth.views import logout_then_login, login
+from django.conf import settings
+    
+class SiteLogin:
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.login_path = settings.LOGIN_URL
+    def process_request(self, request):
+        if request.user.is_anonymous() and request.path != self.login_path:
+            if request.POST:
+                return login(request)
+            else:
+                return HttpResponseRedirect('%s?next=%s' % (self.login_path, request.path))
+
diff --git a/settings.py b/settings.py
index 75ea18a9..c2f779d6 100644
--- a/settings.py
+++ b/settings.py
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@ ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/admin-media/'
 # URL to send users when they don't have sufficient privileges
 BADPRIVS_URL = '/denied/'
 
+# login url
+LOGIN_URL = '/login/'
+
 # List of callables that know how to import templates from various sources.
 TEMPLATE_LOADERS = (
     'django.template.loaders.filesystem.load_template_source',