Mercurial > kallithea
changeset 5788:2d89d49c30e8 stable
docs: add notes about IIS, Windows Authentication and Mercurial
(The original patch from Konstantin has been heavily copyedited and modified by
Mads Kiilerich but is still [based on] Konstantin's feedback and contribution.)
| author | Konstantin Veretennicov <kveretennicov@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| date | Wed, 30 Mar 2016 21:11:38 +0200 |
| parents | c92b6787c843 |
| children | 8c479b274e03 |
| files | docs/installation_iis.rst docs/setup.rst |
| diffstat | 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/docs/installation_iis.rst Sun Mar 13 15:18:08 2016 +0100 +++ b/docs/installation_iis.rst Wed Mar 30 21:11:38 2016 +0200 @@ -9,6 +9,17 @@ .. note:: + Installing Kallithea under IIS can enable Single Sign-On to the Kallithea + web interface from web browsers that can authenticate to the web server. + (As an alternative to IIS, SSO is also possible with for example Apache and + mod_sspi.) + + Mercurial and Git do however by default not support SSO on the client side + and will still require some other kind of authentication. + (An extension like hgssoauthentication_ might solve that.) + +.. note:: + For the best security, it is strongly recommended to only host the site over a secure connection, e.g. using TLS. @@ -48,7 +59,7 @@ The ISAPI handler can be generated using:: - paster install-iis my.ini --root=/ + paster install-iis my.ini --virtualdir=/ This will generate a ``dispatch.py`` file in the current directory that contains the necessary components to finalize an installation into IIS. Once this file @@ -59,10 +70,10 @@ This accomplishes two things: generating an ISAPI compliant DLL file, ``_dispatch.dll``, and installing a script map handler into IIS for the -``--root`` specified above pointing to ``_dispatch.dll``. +``--virtualdir`` specified above pointing to ``_dispatch.dll``. The ISAPI handler is registered to all file extensions, so it will automatically -be the one handling all requests to the specified root. When the website starts +be the one handling all requests to the specified virtual directory. When the website starts the ISAPI handler, it will start a thread pool managed wrapper around the paster middleware WSGI handler that Kallithea runs within and each HTTP request to the site will be processed through this logic henceforth. @@ -73,6 +84,11 @@ The recommended way to handle authentication with Kallithea using IIS is to let IIS handle all the authentication and just pass it to Kallithea. +.. note:: + + As an alternative without SSO, you can also use LDAP authentication with + Active Directory, see :ref:`ldap-setup`. + To move responsibility into IIS from Kallithea, we need to configure Kallithea to let external systems handle authentication and then let Kallithea create the user automatically. To do this, access the administration's authentication page @@ -108,3 +124,6 @@ and any exceptions occurring in the WSGI layer and below (i.e. in the Kallithea application itself) that are uncaught, will be printed here complete with stack traces, making it a lot easier to identify issues. + + +.. _hgssoauthenticatio: https://bitbucket.org/domruf/hgssoauthentication
--- a/docs/setup.rst Sun Mar 13 15:18:08 2016 +0100 +++ b/docs/setup.rst Wed Mar 30 21:11:38 2016 +0200 @@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ If you want to rebuild the index from scratch, you can use the ``-f`` flag as above, or in the admin panel you can check the "build from scratch" checkbox. +.. _ldap-setup: Setting up LDAP support -----------------------