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diff --git a/docs/authentication.txt b/docs/authentication.txt index 820aff2712..907b72e44a 100644 --- a/docs/authentication.txt +++ b/docs/authentication.txt @@ -992,10 +992,10 @@ Writing an authentication backend --------------------------------- An authentication backend is a class that implements two methods: -``get_user(id)`` and ``authenticate(**credentials)``. +``get_user(user_id)`` and ``authenticate(**credentials)``. -The ``get_user`` method takes an ``id`` -- which could be a username, database -ID or whatever -- and returns a ``User`` object. +The ``get_user`` method takes a ``user_id`` -- which could be a username, +database ID or whatever -- and returns a ``User`` object. The ``authenticate`` method takes credentials as keyword arguments. Most of the time, it'll just look like this:: |