Am 25. Juli 2019 um 13:16 Uhr -0700 schrieb Abhilash Raj:

So, Hyperkitty itself doesn't concern with authentication and it is handled by django-allauth, which itself hooks into the higher level authentication API provided by Django.

Ah sure. I forgot about that (because I'm not a Pythonista).

You can use the higher level django.contrib.auth.authenticate() [2] function with right values in a Python script running in the same virtualenv to authenticate the user to your wiki.

Thank you for the hint. I installed Mailman 3 from Ubuntu's repositories, though. Nevertheless, I managed to write a little test script that works successfully. I used "manage.py runscript" to execute it. For that, I created a scripts/ directory below /usr/share/mailman3-web, added an empty __init__.py and then the script itself, as described in the Django online documentation¹. This is the script I used for testing, adapted from your linked documentation for django.contrib.auth.authenticate:

from django.contrib.auth import authenticate

def run():
    user = authenticate(username='johndoe', password='s33cr3t')
    if user is not None:
        # A backend authenticated the credentials
        print "Okay"
    else:
        print "Not Okay"
        # No backend authenticated the credentials

Save it in /usr/share/mailman3-web/scripts/testauth.py and execute

$ python manage.py runscript authtest

as user "www-data" to test it. It'll print "Okay" if the credentials validate and "Not Okay" if not.

Next I'm going to fiddle with it. It's probably possible to move that scripts directory outside /usr into /opt or similar.

Marvin

¹ https://django-extensions.readthedocs.io/en/latest/runscript.html

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On Sun, Jul 28, 2019, at 10:44 AM, Marvin Gülker wrote:

Am 26. Juli 2019 um 12:48 Uhr +0200 schrieb Marvin Gülker:

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Next I'm going to fiddle with it. It's probably possible to move that scripts directory outside /usr into /opt or similar.

I have set up everything successfully now and wrote a blog post about how I did it. It's linked below for anyone who is interested, but it is in German.

https://mg.guelker.eu/articles/2019/07/27/mailman3-moinmoin-verbinden/

Thanks Marvin for sharing this, I couldn't understand anything because I can't read German, but I looked at the code snippets.

I just wanted to point out /etc/mailman3/customscripts/authtest.py script should use print(user.email) function and not the print user.email statement since we don't support Python 2 anymore and it might end up confusing the readers.

-- thanks, Abhilash Raj (maxking)

On Mon, Jul 29, 2019, at 12:12 AM, Marvin Gülker wrote:

Am 28. Juli 2019 um 12:07 Uhr -0700 schrieb Abhilash Raj:

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I just wanted to point out /etc/mailman3/customscripts/authtest.py script should use print(user.email) function and not the print user.email statement since we don't support Python 2 anymore and it might end up confusing the readers.

Thanks! The version in Ubuntu 18.04's repositories still does use Python 2, but I didn't notice that I accidentally wrote Python-2-only code, because I can't code Python anyway (which is stated in the text, but I know you couldn't read that). I'm a Ruby coder mostly when it comes to scripting languages.

Ah! Cool, it should work both of Python 2 and 3 :)

I've fixed it. Thanks for pointing out the problem.

Thank you!

Marvin

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