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-rw-r--r--docs/releases/3.2.txt5
-rw-r--r--docs/topics/auth/customizing.txt15
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/docs/releases/3.2.txt b/docs/releases/3.2.txt
index 7d374da0a7..2ab8546026 100644
--- a/docs/releases/3.2.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/3.2.txt
@@ -625,6 +625,11 @@ Miscellaneous
using :option:`makemessages --locale` option, when they contain hyphens
(``'-'``).
+* The ``django.contrib.auth.forms.ReadOnlyPasswordHashField`` form field is now
+ :attr:`~django.forms.Field.disabled` by default. Therefore
+ ``UserChangeForm.clean_password()`` is no longer required to return the
+ initial value.
+
.. _deprecated-features-3.2:
Features deprecated in 3.2
diff --git a/docs/topics/auth/customizing.txt b/docs/topics/auth/customizing.txt
index 6ab8305468..8314d9f171 100644
--- a/docs/topics/auth/customizing.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/auth/customizing.txt
@@ -1129,7 +1129,7 @@ code would be required in the app's ``admin.py`` file::
class UserChangeForm(forms.ModelForm):
"""A form for updating users. Includes all the fields on
the user, but replaces the password field with admin's
- password hash display field.
+ disabled password hash display field.
"""
password = ReadOnlyPasswordHashField()
@@ -1137,12 +1137,6 @@ code would be required in the app's ``admin.py`` file::
model = MyUser
fields = ('email', 'password', 'date_of_birth', 'is_active', 'is_admin')
- def clean_password(self):
- # Regardless of what the user provides, return the initial value.
- # This is done here, rather than on the field, because the
- # field does not have access to the initial value
- return self.initial["password"]
-
class UserAdmin(BaseUserAdmin):
# The forms to add and change user instances
@@ -1182,3 +1176,10 @@ Finally, specify the custom model as the default user model for your project
using the :setting:`AUTH_USER_MODEL` setting in your ``settings.py``::
AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'customauth.MyUser'
+
+.. versionchanged:: 3.2
+
+ In older versions, ``ReadOnlyPasswordHashField`` is not
+ :attr:`~django.forms.Field.disabled` by default and
+ ``UserChangeForm.clean_password()`` is required to return the initial
+ value, whatever the user provides.