I'd raise a custom exception (e.g. "PasswordExpiredError") and handle the message creation in the view.
On Jul 26, 3:59 pm, Steven Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there a way to access the HttpResponse, or issue a redirect from > within a custom authentication backend? I have Django hooked up to our > Active Directory server, and it works perfectly except when the user's > password expires or they have "User must change password at next > login" set on their account. In these circumstances, I'd like to be > able to spit out a message (using contrib.messages) stating that they > are required to change their password, and then (ideally) issue an > HttpResponseRedirect over to our "change password" website, which is, > coincidentally, on the same Django system, so the message would carry > over and stuff... but I need to be able to set it in the first place. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
