User Authentication

Links

User authentication in Django
http://bitbucket.org/pkimber/sample_django_authentication/

Sample code in my repository at:

sample/python/django/sample_login_logout/

Login

To use the built in login facility:

Add 'django.contrib.admin', to INSTALLED_APPS.
Create a registration/login.html template (here is a sample)

{% extends "base.html" %}

{% block content %}

  {% if form.errors %}
    <p>Your username and password didn't match. Please try again.</p>
  {% endif %}

  <form method="post" action="{% url django.contrib.auth.views.login %}">
    {% csrf_token %}
    <table>
      <tr>
        <td>{{ form.username.label_tag }}</td>
        <td>{{ form.username }}</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>{{ form.password.label_tag }}</td>
        <td>{{ form.password }}</td>
      </tr>
    </table>
    <input type="submit" value="login" />
    <input type="hidden" name="next" value="{{ next }}" />
  </form>

{% endblock %}

Add the following to urls.py

url(regex=r'^accounts/login/$',
    view='django.contrib.auth.views.login',
    name='sample_login'
),
url(regex=r'^accounts/logout/$',
    view='django.contrib.auth.views.logout',
    name='sample_logout'
),

Sample template code for login and logout

{% if user.is_authenticated %}
  <a href="{% url sample_logout %}">logout</a>
{% else %}
  <a href="{% url sample_login %}">login</a>
{% endif %}

If login is successful, the view redirects to the URL specified in next. If next isn’t provided, it redirects to settings.LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL (which defaults to /accounts/profile/).

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