Thanks for the answers, that was pretty much what I was expecting. I haven't had a chance to test this yet but do you think it'll be as simple as just comparing the value with the previous value, seeing as the password field is (I assume) a bit different with it storing the hash rather than the plain text.
On Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:23:15 UTC+1, Roarster wrote: > > I'm running a Django 1.4 site and I have some operations I want to perform > if a user changes their password. I'm using the standard contrib.auth user > accounts with the normal password_change view and I'm not sure if I should > somehow hook into this view or if I should use a signal on post_save for > the user. If I do use the signal, is it possible to tell when the password > has been changed? I do feel that if I can use a signal this might be the > best approach since it would handle any other password change mechanisms > that I might add later without any extra work. > > Does anyone have any ideas on the best way to do this? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/zuDV99Z715wJ. 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.