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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/releases/1.6.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/topics/auth.txt | 6 |
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diff --git a/docs/releases/1.6.txt b/docs/releases/1.6.txt index ef162a8de3..49649bc6b8 100644 --- a/docs/releases/1.6.txt +++ b/docs/releases/1.6.txt @@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ deprecation process for some features`_. What's new in Django 1.6 ======================== +Minor features +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* Authentication backends can raise ``PermissionDenied`` to immediately fail + the authentication chain. + Backwards incompatible changes in 1.6 ===================================== diff --git a/docs/topics/auth.txt b/docs/topics/auth.txt index aed482f710..6d8e3c66c3 100644 --- a/docs/topics/auth.txt +++ b/docs/topics/auth.txt @@ -2391,6 +2391,12 @@ processing at the first positive match. you need to force users to re-authenticate using different methods. A simple way to do that is simply to execute ``Session.objects.all().delete()``. +.. versionadded:: 1.6 + +If a backend raises a :class:`~django.core.exceptions.PermissionDenied` +exception, authentication will immediately fail. Django won't check the +backends that follow. + Writing an authentication backend --------------------------------- |