The aim is to provide a standard way to add Aadhaar authentication to all django applications.

Crude integration is now in place. We can start with a Aadhaar-specific login page, authenicate the user and complete the login process. It will stabilize over time with more usecases.

Please add the following to the settings.py:

   AUTH_USER_PROFILE='django_auth_aadhaar.AadhaarUserProfile'
   AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS=('django_auth_aadhaar.backend.AadhaarBackend',)
   AADHAAR_CONFIG_FILE='...fixtures/auth.cfg' 

Please provide the full path for configuration file. Once the configuration is in place, then run the application. The examples directory has a sample application.

   $ cd examples/authextend 
   $ python manage.py syncdb 
   $ python manage.py runserver 

Now visit http://localhost:8000/login Fill in the details and press 'Authenticate'.

The body of the aadhaar-based login form can be obtained from the forms module.

   # views.py 
   from django_auth_aadhaar.forms import AadhaarAuthForm
   ...
   f = AadhaarAuthForm() 
   return render_to_response('auth.html',
                          {'form': f},
                          context_instance=RequestContext(request))

It is work in progress. Still exploring better ways to implementing this. For now we use aadhaar number as the username, and AadhaarUserProfile to store extra information. In the backend we ignore the username.

1. Only does authentication. Cannot change password or any other attributes.

2. Creates a local user when the authentication happens. Cant avoid it, it seems. I looked at RemoteUserBackend as well without good answers.

3. Does not fully address the security issues

This is based on the django-ldap-auth implementation.