Custom authentication provider

Panel
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Hey all!

I’m in need of defining a custom authentication provider for a panel application.

The auth backend in question does not support OAuth (unfortunately), so I’ve been referencing the built-in basic auth provider to understand how to do this.

I’m a bit confused about how to achieve this. I’ve tried the following:

  1. A subclass of tornado.web.RequestHandler, which is configured with panel.config.auth = [my class]

  2. A subclass of bokeh.server.auth_provider.AuthProvider configured the same way.

  3. A subclass of tornado.web.RequestHandler, configured with an entry point statement in my pyproject.toml file, and passing auth_provider = “my auth provider” to panel.serve()

  4. A subclass of bokeh.server.auth_provider.AuthProvider, configured the same way.

Is there a working example somewhere of a provider which takes a username and password, and uses a custom validation method for checking that the password is valid?

Thank you!

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I have seen none. It would be amazing to have a how-to guide on this.

I would do the same as it looks like you have done. Look at how the Panel Basic and OAuth authentication is defined for inspiration.

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Managed to figure it out! And my client agreed to me posting a sanitized version on the web for others to learn from. I’ll follow up here soon with a link to the code.