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diff --git a/docs/zcml/remoteuserauthenticationpolicy.rst b/docs/zcml/remoteuserauthenticationpolicy.rst deleted file mode 100644 index 56e73ee7a..000000000 --- a/docs/zcml/remoteuserauthenticationpolicy.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,51 +0,0 @@ -.. _remoteuserauthenticationpolicy_directive: - -``remoteuserauthenticationpolicy`` ----------------------------------- - -When this directive is used, authentication information is obtained -from a ``REMOTE_USER`` key in the WSGI environment, assumed to -be set by a WSGI server or an upstream middleware component. - -Attributes -~~~~~~~~~~ - -``environ_key`` - The ``environ_key`` is the name that will be used to obtain the - remote user value from the WSGI environment. It defaults to - ``REMOTE_USER``. - -``callback`` - The ``callback`` is a Python dotted name to a function passed the - string representing the remote user and the request as positional - arguments. The callback is expected to return None if the user - represented by the string doesn't exist or a sequence of group - identifiers (possibly empty) if the user does exist. If - ``callback`` is None, the userid will be assumed to exist with no - groups. It defaults to ``None``. - -Example -~~~~~~~ - -.. code-block:: xml - :linenos: - - <remoteuserauthenticationpolicy - environ_key="REMOTE_USER" - callback=".somemodule.somefunc" - /> - -Alternatives -~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -You may create an instance of the -:class:`pyramid.authentication.RemoteUserAuthenticationPolicy` and -pass it to the :class:`pyramid.config.Configurator` -constructor as the ``authentication_policy`` argument during initial -application configuration. - -See Also -~~~~~~~~ - -See also :ref:`authentication_policies_directives_section` and -:class:`pyramid.authentication.RemoteUserAuthenticationPolicy`. |