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diff --git a/docs/topics/testing.txt b/docs/topics/testing.txt index d235e0deba..cec6002b7b 100644 --- a/docs/topics/testing.txt +++ b/docs/topics/testing.txt @@ -686,7 +686,13 @@ arguments at time of construction: user accounts that are valid on your production site will not work under test conditions. You'll need to create users as part of the test suite -- either manually (using the Django model API) or with a test - fixture. + fixture. Remember that if you want your test user to have a password, + you can't set the user's password by setting the password attribute + directly -- you must use the + :meth:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User.set_password()` function to + store a correctly hashed password. Alternatively, you can use the + :meth:`~django.contrib.auth.models.UserManager.create_user` helper + method to create a new user with a correctly hashed password. .. method:: Client.logout() |