diff --git a/docs/topics/auth.txt b/docs/topics/auth.txt
index 1cfccfc5e0..3b6ad1b77d 100644
--- a/docs/topics/auth.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/auth.txt
@@ -1457,9 +1457,16 @@ The permission_required decorator
 Limiting access to generic views
 --------------------------------
 
-To limit access to a :doc:`generic view </ref/generic-views>`, write a thin
-wrapper around the view, and point your URLconf to your wrapper instead of the
-generic view itself. For example::
+Controlling access to a :doc:`class-based generic view </ref/class-based-views>`
+is done by decorating the :meth:`View.dispatch <django.views.generic.base.View.dispatch>`
+method on the class. See :ref:`decorating-class-based-views` for the details.
+
+Function-based generic views
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+To limit access to a :doc:`function-based generic view </ref/generic-views>`,
+write a thin wrapper around the view, and point your URLconf to your wrapper
+instead of the generic view itself. For example::
 
     from django.views.generic.date_based import object_detail
 
diff --git a/docs/topics/class-based-views.txt b/docs/topics/class-based-views.txt
index d375e8d67b..81c59fed53 100644
--- a/docs/topics/class-based-views.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/class-based-views.txt
@@ -584,6 +584,8 @@ This approach applies the decorator on a per-instance basis. If you
 want every instance of a view to be decorated, you need to take a
 different approach.
 
+.. _decorating-class-based-views:
+
 Decorating the class
 --------------------