HTTP Basic Authentication Policy

To adopt basic HTTP authentication, you can use Pyramid's built-in authentication policy, pyramid.authentication.BasicAuthAuthenticationPolicy.

This is a complete working example with very simple authentication and authorization:

from pyramid.authentication import BasicAuthAuthenticationPolicy
from pyramid.authorization import ACLAuthorizationPolicy
from pyramid.config import Configurator
from pyramid.httpexceptions import HTTPForbidden
from pyramid.httpexceptions import HTTPUnauthorized
from pyramid.security import ALL_PERMISSIONS
from pyramid.security import Allow
from pyramid.security import Authenticated
from pyramid.security import forget
from pyramid.view import forbidden_view_config
from pyramid.view import view_config

@view_config(route_name='home', renderer='json', permission='view')
def home_view(request):
    return {
        'page': 'home',
        'userid': request.authenticated_userid,
        'principals': request.effective_principals,
        'context_type': str(type(request.context)),
    }

@forbidden_view_config()
def forbidden_view(request):
    if request.authenticated_userid is None:
        response = HTTPUnauthorized()
        response.headers.update(forget(request))

    # user is logged in but doesn't have permissions, reject wholesale
    else:
        response = HTTPForbidden()
    return response

def check_credentials(username, password, request):
    if username == 'admin' and password == 'admin':
        # an empty list is enough to indicate logged-in... watch how this
        # affects the principals returned in the home view if you want to
        # expand ACLs later
        return []

class Root:
    # dead simple, give everyone who is logged in any permission
    # (see the home_view for an example permission)
    __acl__ = (
        (Allow, Authenticated, ALL_PERMISSIONS),
    )

def main(global_conf, **settings):
    config = Configurator(settings=settings)

    authn_policy = BasicAuthAuthenticationPolicy(check_credentials)
    config.set_authentication_policy(authn_policy)
    config.set_authorization_policy(ACLAuthorizationPolicy())
    config.set_root_factory(lambda request: Root())

    config.add_route('home', '/')

    config.scan(__name__)
    return config.make_wsgi_app()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    from waitress import serve
    app = main({})
    serve(app, listen='localhost:8000')