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``django.contrib.auth``
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=======================
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This document provides API reference material for the components of Django's
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authentication system. For more details on the usage of these components or
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how to customize authentication and authorization see the :doc:`authentication
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topic guide </topics/auth/index>`.
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.. currentmodule:: django.contrib.auth
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User
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====
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Fields
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------
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.. class:: models.User
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:class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User` objects have the following
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fields:
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.. attribute:: username
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Required. 30 characters or fewer. Usernames may contain alphanumeric,
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``_``, ``@``, ``+``, ``.`` and ``-`` characters.
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.. attribute:: first_name
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Optional. 30 characters or fewer.
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.. attribute:: last_name
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Optional. 30 characters or fewer.
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.. attribute:: email
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Optional. Email address.
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.. attribute:: password
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Required. A hash of, and metadata about, the password. (Django doesn't
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store the raw password.) Raw passwords can be arbitrarily long and can
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contain any character. See the :doc:`password documentation
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</topics/auth/passwords>`.
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.. attribute:: groups
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Many-to-many relationship to :class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.Group`
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.. attribute:: user_permissions
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Many-to-many relationship to :class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.Permission`
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.. attribute:: is_staff
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Boolean. Designates whether this user can access the admin site.
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.. attribute:: is_active
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Boolean. Designates whether this user account should be considered
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active. We recommend that you set this flag to ``False`` instead of
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deleting accounts; that way, if your applications have any foreign keys
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to users, the foreign keys won't break.
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This doesn't necessarily control whether or not the user can log in.
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Authentication backends aren't required to check for the ``is_active``
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flag, and the default backends do not. If you want to reject a login
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based on ``is_active`` being ``False``, it's up to you to check that in
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your own login view or a custom authentication backend. However, the
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:class:`~django.contrib.auth.forms.AuthenticationForm` used by the
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:func:`~django.contrib.auth.views.login` view (which is the default)
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*does* perform this check, as do the permission-checking methods such
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as :meth:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User.has_perm` and the
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authentication in the Django admin. All of those functions/methods will
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return ``False`` for inactive users.
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.. attribute:: is_superuser
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Boolean. Designates that this user has all permissions without
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explicitly assigning them.
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.. attribute:: last_login
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A datetime of the user's last login. Is set to the current date/time by
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default.
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.. attribute:: date_joined
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A datetime designating when the account was created. Is set to the
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current date/time by default when the account is created.
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Methods
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-------
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.. class:: models.User
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.. method:: get_username()
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Returns the username for the user. Since the User model can be swapped
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out, you should use this method instead of referencing the username
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attribute directly.
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.. method:: is_anonymous()
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Always returns ``False``. This is a way of differentiating
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:class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User` and
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:class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.AnonymousUser` objects.
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Generally, you should prefer using
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:meth:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User.is_authenticated()` to this
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method.
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.. method:: is_authenticated()
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Always returns ``True``. This is a way to tell if the user has been
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authenticated. This does not imply any permissions, and doesn't check
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if the user is active - it only indicates that the user has provided a
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valid username and password.
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.. method:: get_full_name()
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Returns the :attr:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User.first_name` plus
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the :attr:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User.last_name`, with a space in
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between.
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.. method:: set_password(raw_password)
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Sets the user's password to the given raw string, taking care of the
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password hashing. Doesn't save the
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:class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User` object.
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.. method:: check_password(raw_password)
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Returns ``True`` if the given raw string is the correct password for
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the user. (This takes care of the password hashing in making the
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comparison.)
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.. method:: set_unusable_password()
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Marks the user as having no password set. This isn't the same as
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having a blank string for a password.
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:meth:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User.check_password()` for this user
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will never return ``True``. Doesn't save the
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:class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User` object.
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You may need this if authentication for your application takes place
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against an existing external source such as an LDAP directory.
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.. method:: has_usable_password()
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Returns ``False`` if
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:meth:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User.set_unusable_password()` has
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been called for this user.
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.. method:: get_group_permissions(obj=None)
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Returns a set of permission strings that the user has, through his/her
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groups.
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If ``obj`` is passed in, only returns the group permissions for
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this specific object.
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.. method:: get_all_permissions(obj=None)
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Returns a set of permission strings that the user has, both through
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group and user permissions.
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If ``obj`` is passed in, only returns the permissions for this
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specific object.
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.. method:: has_perm(perm, obj=None)
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Returns ``True`` if the user has the specified permission, where perm
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is in the format ``"<app label>.<permission codename>"``. (see
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documentation on :ref:`permissions <topic-authorization>`). If the user is
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inactive, this method will always return ``False``.
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If ``obj`` is passed in, this method won't check for a permission for
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the model, but for this specific object.
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.. method:: has_perms(perm_list, obj=None)
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Returns ``True`` if the user has each of the specified permissions,
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where each perm is in the format
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``"<app label>.<permission codename>"``. If the user is inactive,
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this method will always return ``False``.
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If ``obj`` is passed in, this method won't check for permissions for
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the model, but for the specific object.
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.. method:: has_module_perms(package_name)
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Returns ``True`` if the user has any permissions in the given package
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(the Django app label). If the user is inactive, this method will
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always return ``False``.
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.. method:: email_user(subject, message, from_email=None)
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Sends an email to the user. If ``from_email`` is ``None``, Django uses
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the :setting:`DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL`.
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.. method:: get_profile()
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.. deprecated:: 1.5
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With the introduction of :ref:`custom User models <auth-custom-user>`,
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the use of :setting:`AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE` to define a single profile
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model is no longer supported. See the
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:doc:`Django 1.5 release notes</releases/1.5>` for more information.
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Returns a site-specific profile for this user. Raises
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``django.contrib.auth.models.SiteProfileNotAvailable`` if the
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current site doesn't allow profiles, or
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:exc:`django.core.exceptions.ObjectDoesNotExist` if the user does not
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have a profile.
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Manager methods
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---------------
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.. class:: models.UserManager
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The :class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User` model has a custom manager
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that has the following helper methods (in addition to the methods provided
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by :class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.BaseUserManager`):
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.. method:: create_user(username, email=None, password=None, **extra_fields)
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Creates, saves and returns a :class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User`.
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The :attr:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User.username` and
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:attr:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User.password` are set as given. The
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domain portion of :attr:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User.email` is
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automatically converted to lowercase, and the returned
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:class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User` object will have
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:attr:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User.is_active` set to ``True``.
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If no password is provided,
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:meth:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User.set_unusable_password()` will
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be called.
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The ``extra_fields`` keyword arguments are passed through to the
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:class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User`'s ``__init__`` method to
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allow setting arbitrary fields on a :ref:`custom User model
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<auth-custom-user>`.
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See :ref:`Creating users <topics-auth-creating-users>` for example usage.
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.. method:: create_superuser(self, username, email, password, **extra_fields)
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Same as :meth:`create_user`, but sets :attr:`~models.User.is_staff` and
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:attr:`~models.User.is_superuser` to ``True``.
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Anonymous users
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===============
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.. class:: models.AnonymousUser
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:class:`django.contrib.auth.models.AnonymousUser` is a class that
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implements the :class:`django.contrib.auth.models.User` interface, with
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these differences:
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* :ref:`id <automatic-primary-key-fields>` is always ``None``.
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* :attr:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User.is_staff` and
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:attr:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User.is_superuser` are always
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``False``.
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* :attr:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User.is_active` is always ``False``.
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* :attr:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User.groups` and
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:attr:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User.user_permissions` are always
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empty.
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* :meth:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User.is_anonymous()` returns ``True``
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instead of ``False``.
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* :meth:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User.is_authenticated()` returns
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``False`` instead of ``True``.
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* :meth:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User.set_password()`,
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:meth:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User.check_password()`,
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:meth:`~django.db.models.Model.save` and
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:meth:`~django.db.models.Model.delete()` raise
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:exc:`~exceptions.NotImplementedError`.
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In practice, you probably won't need to use
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:class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.AnonymousUser` objects on your own, but
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they're used by Web requests, as explained in the next section.
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Permission
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==========
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.. class:: models.Permission
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Fields
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------
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:class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.Permission` objects have the following
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fields:
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.. attribute:: name
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Required. 50 characters or fewer. Example: ``'Can vote'``.
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.. attribute:: content_type
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Required. A reference to the ``django_content_type`` database table, which
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contains a record for each installed Django model.
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.. attribute:: codename
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Required. 100 characters or fewer. Example: ``'can_vote'``.
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Methods
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-------
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:class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.Permission` objects have the standard
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data-access methods like any other :doc:`Django model </ref/models/instances>`.
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Group
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=====
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.. class:: models.Group
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Fields
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------
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:class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.Group` objects have the following fields:
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.. attribute:: name
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Required. 80 characters or fewer. Any characters are permitted. Example:
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``'Awesome Users'``.
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.. attribute:: permissions
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Many-to-many field to :class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.Permission`::
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group.permissions = [permission_list]
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group.permissions.add(permission, permission, ...)
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group.permissions.remove(permission, permission, ...)
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group.permissions.clear()
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.. _topics-auth-signals:
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Login and logout signals
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========================
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.. module:: django.contrib.auth.signals
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The auth framework uses two :doc:`signals </topics/signals>` that can be used
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for notification when a user logs in or out.
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.. function:: user_logged_in
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Sent when a user logs in successfully.
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Arguments sent with this signal:
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``sender``
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The class of the user that just logged in.
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``request``
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The current :class:`~django.http.HttpRequest` instance.
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``user``
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The user instance that just logged in.
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.. function:: user_logged_out
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Sent when the logout method is called.
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``sender``
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As above: the class of the user that just logged out or ``None``
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if the user was not authenticated.
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``request``
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The current :class:`~django.http.HttpRequest` instance.
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``user``
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The user instance that just logged out or ``None`` if the
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user was not authenticated.
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.. function:: user_login_failed
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.. versionadded:: 1.5
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Sent when the user failed to login successfully
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``sender``
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The name of the module used for authentication.
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``credentials``
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A dictionary of keyword arguments containing the user credentials that were
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passed to :func:`~django.contrib.auth.authenticate()` or your own custom
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authentication backend. Credentials matching a set of 'sensitive' patterns,
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(including password) will not be sent in the clear as part of the signal.
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.. _authentication-backends-reference:
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Authentication backends
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=======================
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.. module:: django.contrib.auth.backends
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:synopsis: Django's built-in authentication backend classes.
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This section details the authentication backends that come with Django. For
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information on how to use them and how to write your own authentication
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backends, see the :ref:`Other authentication sources section
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<authentication-backends>` of the :doc:`User authentication guide
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</topics/auth/index>`.
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Available authentication backends
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The following backends are available in :mod:`django.contrib.auth.backends`:
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.. class:: ModelBackend
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This is the default authentication backend used by Django. It
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authenticates using usernames and passwords stored in the
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:class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User` model.
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.. class:: RemoteUserBackend
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Use this backend to take advantage of external-to-Django-handled
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authentication. It authenticates using usernames passed in
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:attr:`request.META['REMOTE_USER'] <django.http.HttpRequest.META>`. See
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the :doc:`Authenticating against REMOTE_USER </howto/auth-remote-user>`
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documentation.
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