Refs #25232 -- Simplified ModelBackend.user_can_authenticate().

Thanks Jay Turner for the suggestion.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/django/contrib/auth/backends.py b/django/contrib/auth/backends.py
index 1e12efac38..4adcf35051 100644
--- a/django/contrib/auth/backends.py
+++ b/django/contrib/auth/backends.py
@@ -57,8 +57,7 @@ class ModelBackend(BaseBackend):
         Reject users with is_active=False. Custom user models that don't have
         that attribute are allowed.
         """
-        is_active = getattr(user, "is_active", None)
-        return is_active or is_active is None
+        return getattr(user, "is_active", True)
 
     def _get_user_permissions(self, user_obj):
         return user_obj.user_permissions.all()