The auth context processor provides it, but not as a variable named 'user';
instead it's attached to the 'request' variable, so what you want is '{% if
request.user.is_authenticated }}'.On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 3:02 PM, Drew Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > Using Django 1.10 > > In my templates there is no user object to provide user.is_authenticated > > Is there something I have to do to turn this on? > > My settings has this > > TEMPLATES = [ > { > 'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates', > 'DIRS': [], > 'APP_DIRS': True, > 'OPTIONS': { > 'context_processors': [ > 'django.template.context_processors.debug', > 'django.template.context_processors.request', > 'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth', > 'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages', > ], > }, > }, > ] > > > MIDDLEWARE = [ > 'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware', > 'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware', > 'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware', > 'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware', > 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware', > 'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware', > 'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware', > 'debug_toolbar.middleware.DebugToolbarMiddleware', > ] > > Thanks > > Drew > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/django-users/0392acda-3e6d-41d6-9a6f-1b2a07f9146f%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/0392acda-3e6d-41d6-9a6f-1b2a07f9146f%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAL13Cg_A4OVheLDhrLjuTVaWRY_9VvzfkfhOV1T3AswV82LAdQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

