Configuring user authentication

The LAVA frontend is developed using the Django web application framework and user authentication and authorization is based on the standard Django auth subsystems. This means that it is fairly easy to integrate authentication against any source for which a Django backend exists. Discussed below are the tested and supported authentication methods for LAVA.

Note

The previous OpenID support is not compatible with newer versions of django (versions 1.8 or later). As of LAVA version 2016.8, versions of django older than 1.8 are not supported, so installing this version will remove the OpenID support.

Local Django user accounts are supported. When using local Django user accounts, new user accounts need to be created by Django admin prior to use.

Using Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)

LAVA server could be configured to authenticate via Lightweight Directory Access Protocol ie., LDAP. LAVA uses django_auth_ldap backend for LDAP authentication.

Your chosen LDAP server is configured using the following parameters in /etc/lava-server/settings.conf (JSON syntax):

"AUTH_LDAP_SERVER_URI": "ldap://ldap.example.com",
"AUTH_LDAP_BIND_DN": "",
"AUTH_LDAP_BIND_PASSWORD": "",
"AUTH_LDAP_USER_DN_TEMPLATE": "uid=%(user)s,ou=users,dc=example,dc=com",
"AUTH_LDAP_USER_ATTR_MAP": {
  "first_name": "givenName",
  "email": "mail"
},

Use the following parameter to set a custom LDAP login page message:

"LOGIN_MESSAGE_LDAP": "If your Linaro email is first.second@linaro.org then use first.second as your username"

Other supported parameters are:

"AUTH_LDAP_GROUP_SEARCH": "ou=groups,dc=example,dc=com",
"AUTH_LDAP_USER_FLAGS_BY_GROUP": {
  "is_active": "cn=active,ou=django,ou=groups,dc=example,dc=com",
  "is_staff": "cn=staff,ou=django,ou=groups,dc=example,dc=com",
  "is_superuser": "cn=superuser,ou=django,ou=groups,dc=example,dc=com"
}

Note

Apart from the above supported parameters, in order to do more advanced configuration, make changes to /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/lava_server/settings/common.py

Restart lava-server and apache2 services if this is changed.