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| author | Tim Graham <timograham@gmail.com> | 2013-02-06 08:23:18 -0500 |
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| committer | Tim Graham <timograham@gmail.com> | 2013-02-06 08:24:38 -0500 |
| commit | afa3e1633431137f4e76c7efc359b579f4d9c08e (patch) | |
| tree | 64abd02c1a28038f8f9989a809321f7e2b3b6a09 /docs | |
| parent | 5449240c548bb6877923791d02e800c6b25393f5 (diff) | |
Fixed #19743 - Documented some limitations of contrib.auth.
Thanks Aymeric for the suggestion.
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/topics/auth/index.txt | 8 |
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diff --git a/docs/topics/auth/index.txt b/docs/topics/auth/index.txt index ddb2d2f992..8447d449ce 100644 --- a/docs/topics/auth/index.txt +++ b/docs/topics/auth/index.txt @@ -37,6 +37,14 @@ The auth system consists of: * Forms and view tools for logging in users, or restricting content * A pluggable backend system +The authentication system in Django aims to be very generic and doesn't provide +some features commonly found in web authentication systems. Solutions for some +of these common problems have been implemented in third-party packages: + +* Password strength checking +* Throttling of login attempts +* Authentication against third-parties (OAuth, for example) + Installation ============ |