Re: looking for a clean, easy way to force user to change password on first login

i thought of something along those lines. that's exactly the kind of thing that i was originally searching for -- a way to do it without cluttering things up and without building a bunch of unnecessary infrastructure or hacking core django code. unfortunately, when you do those nice reset emails,

Re: looking for a clean, easy way to force user to change password on first login

thanks again. writing that login view is what i meant by re- implementing the login. my terminology is probably confusing. there is a generic login view in django.contrib.auth.views that does what you are saying, only [obviously] without the custom redirect logic that i want. i just copied and pas

Re: looking for a clean, easy way to force user to change password on first login

thanks for your reply, shawn. that's a good idea, and i already have a one-to-one table inherited from User where i can stash the initial encrypted password. the only thing i don't like about doing it this way is that i am currently trying to use as much generic, built-in django as i can and that

looking for a clean, easy way to force user to change password on first login

i am working on a project where i need to create a number of users (standard django User objects who will login to the site using the vanilla django auth framework) along with random passwords (rather than allowing the users to sign up and supply their own passwords). after the site launches, staf