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| author | David D Lowe <daviddlowe.flimm@gmail.com> | 2024-10-23 18:20:36 +0100 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2024-10-23 14:20:36 -0300 |
| commit | de2bb73904009313bae3664ef71edfd60df9912b (patch) | |
| tree | 785477d0a3aa240e8bfe07e1c011a6e1dfac9121 /docs | |
| parent | 4d11ea1ef01eba14b3a48a727f07f723f782fd84 (diff) | |
Doc'd that unusable passwords are defined by metadata in the password field.
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| -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 c8699a2913..103aff8e0b 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 @@ -175,8 +176,9 @@ 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. |