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Clarified session verification with respect to the current session.

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Tim Graham 2016-08-03 15:16:43 -04:00
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@ -810,6 +810,8 @@ user to the login page or issue an HTTP 403 Forbidden response.
redirects the user to the ``login_url``, optionally including the
``redirect_field_name`` if it is set.
.. currentmodule:: django.contrib.auth
.. _session-invalidation-on-password-change:
Session invalidation on password change
@ -829,16 +831,20 @@ If your :setting:`AUTH_USER_MODEL` inherits from
:meth:`~django.contrib.auth.models.AbstractBaseUser.get_session_auth_hash()`
method, authenticated sessions will include the hash returned by this function.
In the :class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.AbstractBaseUser` case, this is an
HMAC of the password field. Django verifies that the hash sent along with each
request matches the one that's computed server-side. This allows a user to log
out all of their sessions by changing their password.
HMAC of the password field. Django verifies that the hash in the session for
each request matches the one that's computed during the request. This allows a
user to log out all of their sessions by changing their password.
The default password change views included with Django,
:class:`django.contrib.auth.views.PasswordChangeView` and the
:class:`~django.contrib.auth.views.PasswordChangeView` and the
``user_change_password`` view in the :mod:`django.contrib.auth` admin, update
the session with the new password hash so that a user changing their own
password won't log themselves out. If you have a custom password change view
and wish to have similar behavior, use this function:
and wish to have similar behavior, use the :func:`update_session_auth_hash`
function. In this case, however, if a user also wants to invalidate the session
from which they're changing their password (for example, if they believe the
session cookie on their machine was stolen), then they also need to log out
that session.
.. function:: update_session_auth_hash(request, user)