Yeah if you're in the handful of users area it's way overkill. Mod_mellon doesn't quite handle REMOTE_USER but it does set a request variable (MELLON_USER IIRC)

Yeah if you're in the handful of users area it's way overkill. Mod_mellon doesn't quite handle REMOTE_USER but it does set a request variable (MELLON_USER IIRC) so if you have any control over the source at all you can just bodge that in pretty easily (the django bits to grok that are ~4 lines). Also ties you to apache but on the other hand lets you chain authentication to google apps which is gold if you've got a preexisting authentication system.