From 3b952123ac29f66371f5c51a00026faf7cb945c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Graham Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 08:23:18 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] [1.5.x] Fixed #19743 - Documented some limitations of contrib.auth. Thanks Aymeric for the suggestion. Backport of afa3e16334 from master --- docs/topics/auth/index.txt | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/topics/auth/index.txt b/docs/topics/auth/index.txt index ddb2d2f992..8447d449ce 100644 --- a/docs/topics/auth/index.txt +++ b/docs/topics/auth/index.txt @@ -37,6 +37,14 @@ The auth system consists of: * Forms and view tools for logging in users, or restricting content * A pluggable backend system +The authentication system in Django aims to be very generic and doesn't provide +some features commonly found in web authentication systems. Solutions for some +of these common problems have been implemented in third-party packages: + +* Password strength checking +* Throttling of login attempts +* Authentication against third-parties (OAuth, for example) + Installation ============