[PATCH 3/5] REST: Enable token auth support

Stephen Finucane stephen at that.guru
Tue Jun 13 01:52:24 AEST 2017


On Tue, 2017-06-13 at 00:04 +1000, Andrew Donnellan wrote:
> On 10/06/17 03:25, Stephen Finucane wrote:
> > Token authentication is generally viewed as a more secure option for API
> > authentication than storing a username and password.
> > 
> > Django REST Framework gives us a TokenAuthentication class and an authtoken
> > app that we can use to generate random tokens and authenticate to API
> > endpoints. Enable this support and add some tests to validate correct
> > behavior.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Finucane <stephen at that.guru>
> 
> Thanks for respinning this, was meaning to do so this coming week but 
> you beat me to it! Will review the rest of the series tomorrow.

No worries - hope you don't me taking the leap there :) Looking forward to the reviews.

Stephen


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