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Thomas De Schampheleire
login: assert that the validated user actually is found

Due to another bug, it was possible that authentication succeeded but the user
object couldn't be obtained. This was for example noticed when the LDAP auth
module did not correctly parse the email attribute, and a login via email
was attempted. In this case, the user was retrieved from email address and LDAP
found the user, but the email attribute in the Kallithea database was then
changed incorrectly and a subsequent retrieval based on the same original email
address would not find the user.

Such problem would lead to an assert in Kallithea:

File ".../kallithea/controllers/login.py", line 104, in index
auth_user = log_in_user(user, c.form_result['remember'], is_external_auth=False, ip_addr=request.ip_addr)
File ".../kallithea/lib/base.py", line 122, in log_in_user
assert not user.is_default_user, user
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'is_default_user'

This assert cought the problem but is not a spot-on indicator of the real
problem. Instead, we can catch this problem sooner by adding an assert already
in the login controller.
.. _customization:

=============
Customization
=============

There are several ways to customize Kallithea to your needs depending on what
you want to achieve.


HTML/JavaScript/CSS customization
---------------------------------

To customize the look-and-feel of the web interface (for example to add a
company banner or some JavaScript widget or to tweak the CSS style definitions)
you can enter HTML code (possibly with JavaScript and/or CSS) directly via the
*Admin > Settings > Global > HTML/JavaScript customization
block*.


Style sheet customization with Less
-----------------------------------

Kallithea uses `Bootstrap 3`_ and Less_ for its style definitions. If you want
to make some customizations, we recommend to do so by creating a ``theme.less``
file. When you create a file named ``theme.less`` in directory
``kallithea/front-end/`` inside the Kallithea installation, you can use this
file to override the default style. For example, you can use this to override
``@kallithea-theme-main-color``, ``@kallithea-logo-url`` or other `Bootstrap
variables`_.

After creating the ``theme.less`` file, you need to regenerate the CSS files, by
running::

    kallithea-cli front-end-build --no-install-deps

.. _bootstrap 3: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/3.3/
.. _bootstrap variables: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/3.3/customize/#less-variables
.. _less: http://lesscss.org/


Behavioral customization: rcextensions
--------------------------------------

Some behavioral customization can be done in Python using ``rcextensions``, a
custom Python package that can extend Kallithea functionality.

With ``rcextensions`` it's possible to add additional mappings for Whoosh
indexing and statistics, to add additional code into the push/pull/create/delete
repository hooks (for example to send signals to build bots such as Jenkins) and
even to monkey-patch certain parts of the Kallithea source code (for example
overwrite an entire function, change a global variable, ...).

To generate a skeleton extensions package, run::

    kallithea-cli extensions-create -c my.ini

This will create an ``rcextensions`` package next to the specified ``ini`` file.
See the ``__init__.py`` file inside the generated ``rcextensions`` package
for more details.


Behavioral customization: code changes
--------------------------------------

As Kallithea is open-source software, you can make any changes you like directly
in the source code.

We encourage you to send generic improvements back to the
community so that Kallithea can become better. See :ref:`contributing` for more
details.