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| author | David D Lowe <daviddlowe.flimm@gmail.com> | 2024-10-23 18:20:36 +0100 |
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| committer | Natalia <124304+nessita@users.noreply.github.com> | 2024-10-23 14:21:05 -0300 |
| commit | 8bfa520a01a0156533079b5906aed7ea4629eb72 (patch) | |
| tree | 4451011d5ee016f9a4781a9459d2470959086f2d /docs/ref | |
| parent | 630c9e1f9d05e9d25908a0c5d5f81f1b0b537af0 (diff) | |
[5.1.x] Doc'd that unusable passwords are defined by metadata in the password field.
Backport of de2bb73904009313bae3664ef71edfd60df9912b from main.
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/ref')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ref/contrib/auth.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/auth.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/auth.txt index 036f8d9f76..9185c9d0f9 100644 --- a/docs/ref/contrib/auth.txt +++ b/docs/ref/contrib/auth.txt @@ -54,7 +54,8 @@ Fields Required. A hash of, and metadata about, the password. (Django doesn't store the raw password.) Raw passwords can be arbitrarily long and can - contain any character. See the :doc:`password documentation + contain any character. The metadata in this field may mark the password + as unusable. See the :doc:`password documentation </topics/auth/passwords>`. .. attribute:: groups @@ -179,8 +180,9 @@ Methods .. method:: set_unusable_password() - Marks the user as having no password set. This isn't the same as - having a blank string for a password. + Marks the user as having no password set by updating the metadata in + the :attr:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User.password` field. This isn't + the same as having a blank string for a password. :meth:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User.check_password()` for this user will never return ``True``. Doesn't save the :class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User` object. |