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[1.7.x] Added a note regarding django.contrib.auth.authenticate. 

Thanks Josh Brown for the suggestion.

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@ -142,6 +142,16 @@ Authenticating Users
# the authentication system was unable to verify the username and password # the authentication system was unable to verify the username and password
print("The username and password were incorrect.") print("The username and password were incorrect.")
.. note::
This is a low level way to authenticate a set of credentials; for
example, it's used by the
:class:`~django.contrib.auth.middleware.RemoteUserMiddleware`. Unless
you are writing your own authentication system, you probably won't use
this. Rather if you are looking for a way to limit access to logged in
users, see the :func:`~django.contrib.auth.decorators.login_required`
decorator.
.. _topic-authorization: .. _topic-authorization:
Permissions and Authorization Permissions and Authorization