Authentication

Authentication Types

There are two types of authentication in this system, both of which are explained below.

Mentoring head authentication

The mentoring head is simply given the Django admin password for the website, and can log in through http://url/admin. They are able to control the mentors who have access to the system.

The mentor cannot log in through the main website.

Mentor authentication

TBD

##Mentor Whitelist The mentoring head is able to control what students can log into the system. This is done by editing the mentoring whitelist from the admin interface. Adding a student's RIT DCE means that the system will allow them to authenticate against LDAP in order to log in. If the student is not added to the mentoring whitelist when they try to log in, authentication will automatically fail.