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You might be able to do it with the API and polling.

I don't know how a generic solution to that would look like. You can perhaps come up with something that works for you and then we can see if we can generalize it to something upstream.

Not sure if I'm missing a subtlety in the question, but when using reverse proxy container authentication as described, simulating a user login is easy. Hence, to create a user, just run the following on the Kallithea server (here assuming default configuration):

curl -H "X-Forwarded-User: john.d.username" http://127.0.0.1:5000/_admin/login

or in Python:

import urllib2
urllib2.urlopen(urllib2.Request('http://127.0.0.1:5000/_admin/login', headers={'X-Forwarded-User': 'john.d.username'}))

Note that this sends a request directly to Kallithea, bypassing Apache and its authentication.

Thank you for your suggestion, @kwi. In my case, Kallithea is run via mod_wsgi, so that solution might not apply here.

I'll see if I can find some time to dig into Kallithea's API and come up with a potential solution...

Alright then, if that's how you run, it can also be done directly against the WSGI layer. :-)

from paste.deploy import loadapp

kallithea = loadapp('config:/full/path/to/kallithea.ini')

def create_user(username):
    def dummy_start_response(*args):
        pass

    kallithea({
        'REMOTE_USER': username,
        'REQUEST_METHOD': 'GET',
        'SERVER_NAME': 'localhost',
        'SERVER_PORT': '80',
        'SCRIPT_NAME': '',
        'PATH_INFO': '/_admin/login',
        'wsgi.version': (1, 0),
        'wsgi.url_scheme': 'http'
    }, dummy_start_response)

create_user('alice')
create_user('bob')

Ah, OK. I'll try that as soon as I get to it and will provide feedback here. Thank you!

@swltr Any feedback already?

Sorry for the delay - I finally got to test it. Looks like the script that @kwi posted helps. Thanks!