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Flask Web App with Windows Authentication
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To add Windows authentication to your Flask web app, you can use the Flask-Kerberos extension. Flask-Kerberos allows you to use Windows authentication to authenticate users in your web app.
Here are the steps to use Flask-Kerberos:
- Install Flask-Kerberos using pip:
pip install flask-kerberos
- In your Flask app, import the
Kerberos
class from Flask-Kerberos:
pythonfrom flask_kerberos import Kerberos
- Create an instance of the
Kerberos
class and initialize it with your Flask app:
pythonapp = Flask(__name__)
kerberos = Kerberos(app)
- Decorate the view functions that require Windows authentication with the
@kerberos.required
decorator:
python@app.route('/')
@kerberos.required
def index():
return "Hello, {0}!".format(g.kerberos_username)
The g
object is a special object in Flask that is used to store data that is specific to the current request. In this case, g.kerberos_username
is set to the username of the authenticated user.
- Configure your web server to use Windows authentication. This will vary depending on which web server you are using. For example, if you are using Apache, you can use the mod_auth_kerb module.
With these steps, you should be able to add Windows authentication to your Flask web app.