20130701 (Monday, 01 July 2013)

Lino has a first code contributor: Josef Kejzlar contributed the new auth_middleware setting:

I need to make custom authentication (to LDAP) and therefore I had to allow replacing authentication middleware. I’ve also moved authenticate method into middleware class, so that it is possible to reimplement auth.authenticate method that login view uses. The change is backward compatible because auth.authenticate method is reimplemented and all tests passes. I think it could be useful for others as well. Especially the reimplementable auth.authenticate method could be handy.

AFAICS we can remove the module-level get_auth_middleware and authenticate functions.

EDIT 20130704: both are indeed necessary, and they didn’t work when auth_middleware.