http://imil.net/blog/tags/flask-login/ Recent content in Flask-Login on iMil.net Hugo en-us Sat, 06 Jul 2013 10:38:55 +0000 http://imil.net/blog/posts/2013/ldap-flask-login-snippet/ Sat, 06 Jul 2013 10:38:55 +0000 http://imil.net/blog/posts/2013/ldap-flask-login-snippet/ <p>At ${DAYWORK}, I am writing a simple <a href="http://flask.pocoo.org/">Flask</a> web frontend for our new information system. I wanted to have a simple authentication method and so I found the <a href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Flask-Login">Flask-Login</a> extention for <em>Flask</em> which takes care of user validation, session remembrance , and has a callback method in order to plug the authentication on whatever backend you&rsquo;d like.</p> <p>I came up with that little piece of code which makes <em>Flask-Login</em> check a <em>user / password</em> couple against a LDAP server, and validates a user regarding its <code>user ID</code>:</p>