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authorMarten Kenbeek <marten.knbk@gmail.com>2015-03-05 13:09:08 +0100
committerTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2015-03-05 12:17:56 -0500
commit8e744fa1507b6d425860c54e7673e603279367eb (patch)
tree44f3befdcbc9ea30aa3afbfa0be84490aa2d0588 /docs
parentfb7d681705a92c6d510b06822450d6a94ed1623f (diff)
Stressed authentication should be successful before logging in a user.
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diff --git a/docs/topics/auth/default.txt b/docs/topics/auth/default.txt
index f7bc764d47..4046b52f07 100644
--- a/docs/topics/auth/default.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/auth/default.txt
@@ -352,8 +352,8 @@ If you have an authenticated user you want to attach to the current session
.. admonition:: Calling ``authenticate()`` first
- When you're manually logging a user in, you *must* call
- :func:`~django.contrib.auth.authenticate()` before you call
+ When you're manually logging a user in, you *must* successfully authenticate
+ the user with :func:`~django.contrib.auth.authenticate()` before you call
:func:`~django.contrib.auth.login()`.
:func:`~django.contrib.auth.authenticate()`
sets an attribute on the :class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User` noting