django - get 'REMOTE_USER' from middleware class

Question

We use kerberos for our authentication. Using

request.META['REMOTE_USER']

I am able to get the authenticated user in my views.py however when I move this to a custom middleware class inside the

def process_request(self, request):

I keep getting the following error

user = request.META['REMOTE_USER']
KeyError: 'REMOTE_USER'

How do I read the authenticated user from my middleware?

Answer 1

I think the problem is your middleware is executing first than the middleware that fill out that info. Try to change the order of your middleware in the settings.py file.