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| author | Marten Kenbeek <marten.knbk@gmail.com> | 2015-03-05 13:09:08 +0100 |
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| committer | Tim Graham <timograham@gmail.com> | 2015-03-05 12:18:13 -0500 |
| commit | bd7c879d5a0daeaa58f2a32901db6e8d8ed5212d (patch) | |
| tree | 12c7f647d106e66332162f39765edbc29d67830b | |
| parent | 2bef57f3fb523d67ddf2d0d2db0180a21c9fd989 (diff) | |
[1.8.x] Stressed authentication should be successful before logging in a user.
Backport of 8e744fa1507b6d425860c54e7673e603279367eb from master
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/topics/auth/default.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/topics/auth/default.txt b/docs/topics/auth/default.txt index aed6187a37..6cdda816a6 100644 --- a/docs/topics/auth/default.txt +++ b/docs/topics/auth/default.txt @@ -354,8 +354,8 @@ If you have an authenticated user you want to attach to the current session .. admonition:: Calling ``authenticate()`` first - When you're manually logging a user in, you *must* call - :func:`~django.contrib.auth.authenticate()` before you call + When you're manually logging a user in, you *must* successfully authenticate + the user with :func:`~django.contrib.auth.authenticate()` before you call :func:`~django.contrib.auth.login()`. :func:`~django.contrib.auth.authenticate()` sets an attribute on the :class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User` noting |