Adds ability to use x.509 certificates for authenticating users.

Review Request #938 — Created Aug. 2, 2009 and discarded — Latest diff uploaded

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These changes enable Review Board to use x.509 certificates to be used alongside the builtin username/password authentication backend. This functionality will be useful for deployments in environments with a Public Key Infrastructure set up.

I deliberately avoided modifying post-review to support client certificates due to a lack of decent support for them in Python's high-level libraries. Instead, I modified the user preferences view to permit authenticated users to set their Django password. Django's built-in support for multiple authentication backends will then permit them to use the builtin auth backend with post-review.
Tested on my test Review Board server, running Apache/mod_python,mod_ssl/Django 1.1.