A simple PAM authentication backend for Django. Add the folder dpam somewhere on your python path and add 'dpam.backends.PAMBackend' to your settings.py:

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
    ...
    'dpam.backends.PAMBackend',
    ...
)

Now you can login via the system-login credentials. If the user is successfully authenticated but has never logged-in before, a new User object is created. By default this new User has both is_staff and is_superuser set to False. You can change this behavior by adding PAM_IS_STAFF=True and PAM_IS_SUPERUSER in your settings.py file.

If you do not want a User record to be created automatically, use PAM_CREATE_USER=False in settings.py. This is useful in situations where you want to use PAM for authentication but not for authorization.