On Dec 8, 3:20 pm, gunnar <gunnar.weg...@gmx.de> wrote: > Dear group, > > I run django 1.2 on windows on the development server. > > I set up a login site via the standard django login view. The user is > then redirected to a site built from a base template. The view that > calls the base template is only available to logged-in users (via the > @login_required decorator) - otherwise, the user is redirected to the > login site. This part works. > > However, when I try to access {{user.username}} from within the > template, I find that it is empty. is_authenticated returns false. > > What am I doing wrong? > > Gunnar
You're probably simply not sending the user object to the template. You need to either send it explicitly in the context, or ensure the `auth` context processor is active and you're using RequestContext. -- DR. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.