[1.9.x] Fixed #25744 -- Corrected reference to User object in auth docs.

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Anderson Resende 2015-11-12 17:13:32 -03:00 committed by Tim Graham
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@ -115,12 +115,12 @@ Either way, ``authenticate`` should check the credentials it gets, and it
should return a ``User`` object that matches those credentials, if the
credentials are valid. If they're not valid, it should return ``None``.
The Django admin system is tightly coupled to the Django ``User`` object
described at the beginning of this document. For now, the best way to deal with
this is to create a Django ``User`` object for each user that exists for your
backend (e.g., in your LDAP directory, your external SQL database, etc.) You
can either write a script to do this in advance, or your ``authenticate``
method can do it the first time a user logs in.
The Django admin is tightly coupled to the Django :ref:`User object
<user-objects>`. The best way to deal with this is to create a Django ``User``
object for each user that exists for your backend (e.g., in your LDAP
directory, your external SQL database, etc.) You can either write a script to
do this in advance, or your ``authenticate`` method can do it the first time a
user logs in.
Here's an example backend that authenticates against a username and password
variable defined in your ``settings.py`` file and creates a Django ``User``