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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ref/contrib/auth.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/auth.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/auth.txt index 414f4558ee..b12c99fb91 100644 --- a/docs/ref/contrib/auth.txt +++ b/docs/ref/contrib/auth.txt @@ -417,9 +417,15 @@ The following backends are available in :mod:`django.contrib.auth.backends`: .. class:: ModelBackend This is the default authentication backend used by Django. It - authenticates using usernames and passwords stored in the - :class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User` model. + authenticates using credentials consisting of a user identifier and + password. For Django's default user model, the user identifier is the + username, for custom user models it is the field specified by + USERNAME_FIELD (see :doc:`Customizing Users and authentication + </topics/auth/customizing>`). + It also handles the default permissions model as defined for + :class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User` and + :class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.PermissionsMixin`. .. class:: RemoteUserBackend |