Python authentication/authorization framework

Question

I'm developing a REST API in python with tornado and I'm going to implement the authentication and authorization, trying to avoid lock-in to other big projects i.e django. I'm looking around through forums and SO too and I've fond a solution that could fit: repoze.who/what. It seems a good solution but I'm a bit scared about the activity of the projects (repoze.what last release seems to be 1.0.9 (2010-03-04)) and if it can work with async IO.

Anyone have tried it and/or knows something else?

Answer 1

Few months ago, I wrote python-auth. It's simple to use with a RESTFul API.

Install:

pip install auth

Run:

auth-server

Usage:

In your code:

from auth.client import Client
service = Client('srv201', '<Auth-Server IP:PORT>')
print(service)
service.get_roles()
service.add_role(role='admin')

Or use RESTFul API