Yes, there's a mention of that on the password_reset() view docs: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/topics/auth/default/#django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset
Feel free to submit some docs clarifications as a pull request if you'd like. On Tuesday, March 15, 2016 at 7:32:41 PM UTC-4, jorr...@gmail.com wrote: > > Does setting an unusable password on a user prevent them from using the > reset password feature? > > > On Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at 10:14:11 PM UTC+1, Brice PARENT wrote: >> >> When you set an usable password (using >> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/auth/#django.contrib.auth.models.User.set_unusable_password), >> >> it is not really clear that to make the password usable again, one should >> use `set_password` and define a new one. >> The doc says that this method "Marks the user as having no password set." >> which sounds like it's a boolean attribute somewhere that we might unset >> somehow. It should probably state that the method replaces the active >> password by one that can never be used, and add that to be able to use the >> password, it has to be set again using `set_password`. It also gives the >> false impression that we could prevent temporarily an user from login by >> setting this, but that would be a bad idea as it would lose the password. >> >> Or maybe the method name `set_unusable_password` is explicit enough in >> english, but for other languages, I'm not sure the documentation should >> only rely on the methods names to be understood (the description looks like >> the one for a method that would be called `set_password_unusable`). >> >> What do you think about it? >> Thanks >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/2b55d612-bd73-4252-8a55-a285d6dbb089%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
