Ended up using Tom's method in the end (thanks!) - it seemed more efficient than grabbing the user object back out of the database to do a password comparison on every save.
On Thursday, 25 October 2012 11:41:54 UTC+1, Tom Evans wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Roarster > <ianstra...@gmail.com<javascript:>> > 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? > > > > The password_change view takes additional arguments, one of which is > 'password_change_form'. The form is responsible for changing the users > password, and by default is django.contrib.auth.forms.SetPasswordForm > (see docs): > > > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/topics/auth/#django.contrib.auth.views.password_change > > > The form itself is responsible for changing the users password, so by > extending that class and specifying that class to be used, you can > hook directly in to the derived class's save() method and perform > whatever actions you need to when the password is changed. > > Cheers > > Tom > -- 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/-/QTvAFTN53TIJ. 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.
