It turns out that Django resetting the user if REMOTE_USER is not passed in is a problem on live to, so switch the whole code base to using the middleware to set REMOTE_USER from the logged in user if not passed in from the outside

 - Legacy-Id: 7167

Author: OleLaursen

ietf/middleware.py

@@ -56,4 +56,9 @@ def process_request(self, request):
         request.META["PATH_INFO"] = unicodedata.normalize('NFKC', request.META["PATH_INFO"])
         request.path_info = unicodedata.normalize('NFKC', request.path_info)
         return None
-        
+
+class FillInRemoteUserIfLoggedInMiddleware(object):
+    def process_request(self, request):
+        if request.user.is_authenticated() and "REMOTE_USER" not in request.META:
+            request.META["REMOTE_USER"] = request.user.username
+

ietf/settings.py

@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@
     'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
     'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
     'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
+    'ietf.middleware.FillInRemoteUserIfLoggedInMiddleware',
     'django.contrib.auth.middleware.RemoteUserMiddleware',
     'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
     'django.middleware.http.ConditionalGetMiddleware',

ietf/utils/test_runner.py

@@ -88,11 +88,6 @@ class RecordUrlsMiddleware(object):
     def process_request(self, request):
         visited_urls.add(request.path)
 
-class FillInRemoteUserMiddleware(object):
-    def process_request(self, request):
-        if request.user.is_authenticated() and "REMOTE_USER" not in request.META:
-            request.META["REMOTE_USER"] = request.user.username
-
 def get_url_patterns(module):
     res = []
     try:
@@ -204,15 +199,6 @@ def run_tests(self, test_labels, extra_tests=None, **kwargs):
         old_destroy = connection.creation.__class__.destroy_test_db
         connection.creation.__class__.destroy_test_db = safe_destroy_0_1
 
-        classes = []
-        for m in settings.MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES:
-            if m == "django.contrib.auth.middleware.RemoteUserMiddleware":
-                # the tests are not passing in REMOTE_USER, so insert
-                # hack to do so automatically
-                classes.append("ietf.utils.test_runner.FillInRemoteUserMiddleware")
-            classes.append(m)
-        settings.MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = tuple(classes)
-
         check_coverage = not test_labels
 
         if check_coverage: