diff --git a/django/contrib/auth/decorators.py b/django/contrib/auth/decorators.py
index b80aca10a3..798e596978 100644
--- a/django/contrib/auth/decorators.py
+++ b/django/contrib/auth/decorators.py
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 try:
-    from functools import update_wrapper
+    from functools import update_wrapper, wraps
 except ImportError:
-    from django.utils.functional import update_wrapper  # Python 2.3, 2.4 fallback.
+    from django.utils.functional import update_wrapper, wraps  # Python 2.3, 2.4 fallback.
 
 from django.contrib.auth import REDIRECT_FIELD_NAME
 from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
 from django.utils.http import urlquote
+from django.utils.decorators import auto_adapt_to_methods
 
 def user_passes_test(test_func, login_url=None, redirect_field_name=REDIRECT_FIELD_NAME):
     """
@@ -13,9 +14,19 @@ def user_passes_test(test_func, login_url=None, redirect_field_name=REDIRECT_FIE
     redirecting to the log-in page if necessary. The test should be a callable
     that takes the user object and returns True if the user passes.
     """
-    def decorate(view_func):
-        return _CheckLogin(view_func, test_func, login_url, redirect_field_name)
-    return decorate
+    if not login_url:
+        from django.conf import settings
+        login_url = settings.LOGIN_URL
+
+    def decorator(view_func):
+        def _wrapped_view(request, *args, **kwargs):
+            if test_func(request.user):
+                return view_func(request, *args, **kwargs)
+            path = urlquote(request.get_full_path())
+            tup = login_url, redirect_field_name, path
+            return HttpResponseRedirect('%s?%s=%s' % tup)
+        return wraps(view_func)(_wrapped_view)
+    return auto_adapt_to_methods(decorator)
 
 def login_required(function=None, redirect_field_name=REDIRECT_FIELD_NAME):
     """
@@ -36,46 +47,3 @@ def permission_required(perm, login_url=None):
     enabled, redirecting to the log-in page if necessary.
     """
     return user_passes_test(lambda u: u.has_perm(perm), login_url=login_url)
-
-class _CheckLogin(object):
-    """
-    Class that checks that the user passes the given test, redirecting to
-    the log-in page if necessary. If the test is passed, the view function
-    is invoked. The test should be a callable that takes the user object
-    and returns True if the user passes.
-
-    We use a class here so that we can define __get__. This way, when a
-    _CheckLogin object is used as a method decorator, the view function
-    is properly bound to its instance.
-    """
-    def __init__(self, view_func, test_func, login_url=None, redirect_field_name=REDIRECT_FIELD_NAME):
-        if not login_url:
-            from django.conf import settings
-            login_url = settings.LOGIN_URL
-        self.view_func = view_func
-        self.test_func = test_func
-        self.login_url = login_url
-        self.redirect_field_name = redirect_field_name
-        
-        # We can't blindly apply update_wrapper because it udpates __dict__ and 
-        # if the view function is already a _CheckLogin object then 
-        # self.test_func and friends will get stomped. However, we also can't 
-        # *not* update the wrapper's dict because then view function attributes
-        # don't get updated into the wrapper. So we need to split the
-        # difference: don't let update_wrapper update __dict__, but then update
-        # the (parts of) __dict__ that we care about ourselves.
-        update_wrapper(self, view_func, updated=())
-        for k in view_func.__dict__:
-            if k not in self.__dict__:
-                self.__dict__[k] = view_func.__dict__[k]
-
-    def __get__(self, obj, cls=None):
-        view_func = self.view_func.__get__(obj, cls)
-        return _CheckLogin(view_func, self.test_func, self.login_url, self.redirect_field_name)
-    
-    def __call__(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
-        if self.test_func(request.user):
-            return self.view_func(request, *args, **kwargs)
-        path = urlquote(request.get_full_path())
-        tup = self.login_url, self.redirect_field_name, path
-        return HttpResponseRedirect('%s?%s=%s' % tup)