On 10/23/06, Florian Heinle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I created my own authentication backend which gets users from another > table (webforum). I used > http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/authentication/#writing-an-authentication-backend > as a starting point and the final backend looks like this: > http://rafb.net/paste/results/gaXtif32.html > > Now when I import authenticate from django.contrib.auth and type > authenticate(username='AUserWhoSitsInTheWebforumDB',password='HisCorrectPassword'), > I get an User object. I set is_staff=True, too. Yet, when that user > tries to login to the administration-area, he just gets redirected to > the login form. No error message. When I overwrite his password with a > "native" Django one, it works. > > What did I miss? authenticate(...) works. I added my backend to > settings.py, too.
Sounds like you haven't called login(request, user). Authenticate only checks to make sure a user's credentials are valid. Joseph --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
