here i guess i wrote Every thing to be able to log in by mail but it's not working is there something missing please? and AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = ( 'mayapp.backends.EmailAuthBackend', 'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend' )
backends.py from django.conf import settings from django.contrib.auth.backends import ModelBackend from django.core.validators import email_re from django.contrib.auth.models import User, check_password # Overwrite the default backend to check for e-mail address class EmailAuthBackend(object): """ Email Authentication Backend Allows a user to sign in using an email/password pair rather than a username/password pair. """ def authenticate(self, username=None, password=None): """ Authenticate a user based on email address as the user name. """ try: user = User.objects.get(email=username) if user.check_password(password): return user except User.DoesNotExist: return None def get_user(self, user_id): """ Get a User object from the user_id. """ try: return User.objects.get(pk=user_id) except User.DoesNotExist: return None views.py def login_user(request): state = "Please log in below..." username = password = '' if request.POST: if 'login' in request.POST: username = request.POST.get('username') password = request.POST.get('password') user = authenticate(username=username, password=password) if user is not None: if user.is_active: login(request, user) state = "You're successfully logged in!" return render_to_response('master.html',RequestContext(request)) else: state = "Your account is not active, please contact the site admin." else: state = "Your username and/or password were incorrect." elif 'signup' in request.POST: form= SignUpForm() context = {'form':form} return render_to_response('Sign_up_Employer.html',context,context_instance=RequestContext(request)) return render_to_response('login.html',{'state':state, 'username': username},RequestContext(request)) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@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.