#2656: After creating a new user with create_user, calling login is failed
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Reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Owner: adrian
Type: defect | Status: closed
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Core framework | Version:
Severity: normal | Resolution: invalid
Keywords: |
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Comment (by ubernostrum):
And just to clarify in an utterly pedantic way, based on double-checking
the code:
* `login` takes two arguments: the `HttpRequest` and a `User` object, and
updates the session corresponding to the request with info about the user.
That's it.
* `authenticate` takes a set of credentials (using the default built-in
auth backend, this is a username/password pair) and sees if they
correspond to a valid `User` object, then returns that `User` object.
In other words, any `su`-style functionality has to be built around
`authenticate`, and that's not a bug -- `authenticate` is, well, how you
''authenticate'' people. If you want to do a password-less-style switch
the way `su` works on Unix when you're root, you can supply a custom auth
backend which supports that.
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Ticket URL: <http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/2656>
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