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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 ============ |