#17967: "change password" link in the admin header should be easier to disable
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Reporter: d00gs | Owner: nobody
Type: Bug | Status: new
Component: contrib.admin | Version: 1.4
Severity: Normal | Keywords:
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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The "change password" link in the admin header doesn't make sense for all
installations. For example, sites that use `django-auth-ldap` as the
primary authentication scheme don't necessarily allow users to change
their password, because it [[https://bitbucket.org/psagers/django-auth-
ldap/issue/8/add-the-ablility-to-change-password#comment-402102|might not
make sense to do so]]. In that case, having the "change password" link in
the header of the admin is confusing for users, because it doesn't work /
do what they expect it to.
I've overriden the `base.html` template and made this change:
{{{
35c35,37
< <a href="{% url 'admin:password_change' %}">{% trans
'Change password' %}</a> /
---
> {% if user.has_usable_password %}
> <a href="{% url 'admin:password_change' %}">{% trans
'Change password' %}</a> /
> {% endif %}
}}}
which is appropriate for my sites, though I'm not sure if it is in
general.
But this is annoying, because then when you update Django (as I did today)
any changes to `base.html` just won't happen and there will probably be
problems.
If `has_usable_password` isn't a good way to distinguish in general, then
there should either be a setting for whether this should be displayed, or
the `<div id="user-tools">` should be in its own template for easy
overriding.
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