Django, mozilla-django-oidc and admin

Question

i am trying to connect Okta with a custom Django (v.3.0.2) app i am coding, using the mozilla-django-oidc library. So far the initial user authentication and account creatio

Answer 1

I've come up with a solution for using the mozilla-django-oidc login with the django admin. It's a little hacky but it's a lot less intimidating to redirect the admin login page than to override AdminSite.

In my top-level urls.py I have

class CustomLogin(View):
    def get(self, request, **kwargs):
        return HttpResponseRedirect(
            reverse('oidc_authentication_init') + (
                '?next={}'.format(request.GET['next']) if 'next' in request.GET else ''
            )
        )

urlpatterns = [
    path('oidc/', include("mozilla_django_oidc.urls")),
    path('admin/login/', CustomLogin.as_view()),
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
    # the rest of my urls...
]

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If you don't care about passing the ?next= value correctly you can skip the CustomLogin class and do the following instead

urlpatterns = [
    path('oidc/', include("mozilla_django_oidc.urls")),
]
# This only works if you break up urlpatterns so the reverse below can find what it needs
urlpatterns += [
    path('admin/login/', RedirectView.as_view(
        url=reverse('oidc_authentication_init') + ?next=/admin/,
        permanent=False
    )),
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
    # the rest of my urls...
]

I added ?next=/admin/ because by default once you log in you will be redirected to settings.LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL which I'm already using for something else

Answer 2

The goal was achieved by adding the default auth backend to the settings:

settings.py

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = [
    'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',
    'mozilla_django_oidc.auth.OIDCAuthenticationBackend',
]

I don't get Okta auth for the admin, but since i am happy just to have the admin running, i will stop here.