My Own Private Thermopylae » Django http://thermopylae.net/blog Do I know what a rhetorical question is? Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:53:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Login on behalf of a user in Django http://thermopylae.net/blog/2009/02/26/login-on-behalf-ofa-user-in-django/ http://thermopylae.net/blog/2009/02/26/login-on-behalf-ofa-user-in-django/#comments Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:57:18 +0000 admin http://thermopylae.net/blog/?p=107 There are several points during the pieces of a Django app’s lifecycle where you’d like to log in a user without going through the standard login views. These are situations when the user has authenticated their identity in some other way, for example:

  • User just successfully signed up.  There’s no reason to ask them to re-enter the credentials they just set up.
  • User just reset their password.

The official documentation isn’t super clear on how to do it, but it turns out its incredibly easy:

from django.contrib.auth import login
 
user.backend = 'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'
login(request, user)

The backend is used by the auth system later on in the process.

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