Re: Django Admin site and password field

[Michal Petrucha]

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 09:51:24AM -0700, Gabe wrote:
> First of all thx for all replies.
> 
> For now I don`t use auth.User model I would like to create my own. So
> I have written model class Users:
> 
> [...]
> 
> Then I have registered it in admin panel by editing admin.py among
> with another models:
> 
> from django.contrib import admin
> from dgcmsUser.models import Users
> from dgcmsUser.models import Priviledges
> from dgcmsUser.models import UsersProfiles
> 
> admin.site.register(Users)
> admin.site.register(UsersProfiles)
> admin.site.register(Priviledges)
> 
> 
> Then when I add user using autogenerated admin panel the password
> field is <input type="text" /> not <input type="password" /> which I
> would like it to be.

You have to create a custom ModelForm for your Users model. This form
will only have to override the widget of the password field. Then
you'll have to create a custom ModelAdmin specifying your ModelForm
instead of the default one.

It may look something like this (note that I'm typing off the top of
my head):

class UserForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        widgets = {
            'password': PasswordInput,
        }

class UserAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    form = UserForm

admin.site.register(User, UserAdmin)


OT: Note that each time someone saves a plaintext password in a
database, a kitten dies. Please, think of the kittens. (-; (Also
applies to base64-encoded passwords and such. Yeah, you wouldn't
believe it but the academic information system our university forces
us to use does exactly that. Probably because of unicode encoding
issues.)

Michal

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