Comment 1 for bug 727879

This is by design.

When using authentication, you must either setup your webserver to use HTTP basic authentication or you must use the out of the box authentication. See the docs (http://packages.python.org/rpc4django/usage/auth.html) for details.

When using HTTP authentication, you should be using the RemoteUserMiddleware to do the password checking automatically. If using the out of the box authentication, you should use the system.login() method.