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authorTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2017-10-25 11:17:17 -0400
committerTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2017-10-25 12:02:12 -0400
commitc4f518e484a948af9c2fe370896c3e2ddb492d40 (patch)
treeb2fe83c9ea10c1577dacde4e4c0e7dcdb233066e /docs
parente3b59772badc9160ec2873bdc3761f2cc140fe18 (diff)
[2.0.x] Suggested LoginView rather than @login_required as an alternative to authenticate().
Backport of 3642c3758b3426292e02fe4669cc2d2028a9ac8c from master
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diff --git a/docs/topics/auth/default.txt b/docs/topics/auth/default.txt
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+++ b/docs/topics/auth/default.txt
@@ -146,9 +146,8 @@ Authenticating users
example, it's used by the
:class:`~django.contrib.auth.middleware.RemoteUserMiddleware`. Unless
you are writing your own authentication system, you probably won't use
- this. Rather if you are looking for a way to limit access to logged in
- users, see the :func:`~django.contrib.auth.decorators.login_required`
- decorator.
+ this. Rather if you're looking for a way to login a user, use the
+ :class:`~django.contrib.auth.views.LoginView`.
.. _topic-authorization: