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authorAdrien <adrien.glauser@gmail.com>2023-11-21 15:52:04 +0100
committerMariusz Felisiak <felisiak.mariusz@gmail.com>2023-12-01 10:44:58 +0100
commit79099a7ba454581ab521fcb4ea61fc6ed3dccf26 (patch)
treeea43161a7ebcb8d38f871a3f99c0f5f35002dd22 /docs
parentdafbed9af586bd3973f24f332676a9dc8f501163 (diff)
Improved wording in auth.models.User field docs.
Co-authored-by: Lily Foote <code@lilyf.org>
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-rw-r--r--docs/ref/contrib/auth.txt17
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/auth.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/auth.txt
index 9d56631923..db1ff3bb5d 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/auth.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/auth.txt
@@ -67,14 +67,14 @@ Fields
.. attribute:: is_staff
- Boolean. Designates whether this user can access the admin site.
+ Boolean. Allows this user to access the admin site.
.. attribute:: is_active
- Boolean. Designates whether this user account should be considered
- active. We recommend that you set this flag to ``False`` instead of
- deleting accounts; that way, if your applications have any foreign keys
- to users, the foreign keys won't break.
+ Boolean. Marks this user account as active. We recommend that you set
+ this flag to ``False`` instead of deleting accounts. That way, if your
+ applications have any foreign keys to users, the foreign keys won't
+ break.
This doesn't necessarily control whether or not the user can log in.
Authentication backends aren't required to check for the ``is_active``
@@ -94,8 +94,8 @@ Fields
.. attribute:: is_superuser
- Boolean. Designates that this user has all permissions without
- explicitly assigning them.
+ Boolean. Treats this user as having all permissions without assigning
+ any permission to it in particular.
.. attribute:: last_login
@@ -103,8 +103,7 @@ Fields
.. attribute:: date_joined
- A datetime designating when the account was created. Is set to the
- current date/time by default when the account is created.
+ The date/time when the account was created.
Attributes
----------