Comments on: Django IA: Auth Password Reset

By: Jacob Perkins

Jacob Perkins — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:18:03 +0000

Yes, the email field is optional by default, but I usually create custom form to make it required. Otherwise the whole password reset thing won't work.

By: S Kujur

S Kujur — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:35:08 +0000

All is fine and dandy. But by default, the email is not required for a user to create his/her account, is that not so?

By: Jacob Perkins

Jacob Perkins — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:18:03 +0000

Yes, the email field is optional by default, but I usually create custom form to make it required. Otherwise the whole password reset thing won't work.

By: S Kujur

S Kujur — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 06:35:08 +0000

All is fine and dandy. But by default, the email is not required for a user to create his/her account, is that not so?

By: Jacob

Jacob — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:09:26 +0000

Thanks Felix, I do something very similar to do an automatic login after password reset. But I forgot to set the last_login and user message; I’ll have to add that to my code

By: felix

felix — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:36:44 +0000

also this is a good idea after logging the account in:

account.last_login = datetime.datetime.now()
account.save()
account.message_set.create(message=’Your password has been set. Welcome to %s’ % settings.SITE_NAME)

By: felix

felix — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:35:18 +0000

you don’t need to write your own backend to change the reset/login behavior. you just have to use the URL config to direct to your own view

url(r’^reset/(?P[0-9A-Za-z]+)-(?P.+)/$’,
‘accountz.views.password_reset_confirm’,
name=’password_reset_confirm’),

and then use this to log them in:

from django.contrib import auth

def login_user(user,request):
“”" not a view, a helper “”"

# whatever my current backend is
bs = auth.get_backends()
backend = bs[0] # the first one, usually the EmailBackend
user.backend = “%s.%s” % (backend.__module__, backend.__class__.__name__)

auth.login(request,user)