I think your password is stored in plaintext. try using User.set_password
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/#passwords
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:42 AM, tsmets <tsm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I create in my model the Authors
>
>
> class Author(User):
> """ An Author is someone more of less identified """
> # TODO : Ensure that in fact the users are FK to the Django user
> management code
> gender = models.CharField(max_length=1, choices=GENDER_CHOICES)
> persistance = models.ForeignKey(PersistanceDuration)
>
> def __unicode__(self):
> return u'%s %s --> user-id : %s (%s)' % (self.first_name,
> self.last_name, self.username, self.email)
>
> class Admin:
> list_display = ( 'username', 'email', 'first_name', 'last_name',
> 'gender', 'date_joined', 'last_login')
> list_filter = ( 'username', 'email', 'first_name', 'last_name',
> 'gender')
> ordering = ('username',)
> search_fields = ( 'username', 'email', 'first_name', 'last_name',
> 'gender')
>
> class Meta:
> ordering = ['username']
>
> ****************************
>
> In the admin console I see Author I created and they are active.
> However when I try to authenticate with the following code (either in
> a django-shell or in the View):
>
> def login(request):
> logging.fatal ('def login(request):')
> if (request.method== 'POST'):
> user = None
> username = request.POST['username']
> email = request.POST['email']
> pwd = request.POST['password']
> logging.fatal('Value received :\n\tusername : %s\n\te-mail : %s\n
> \tpassword : %s' % (username, email, pwd))
>
> if username is not None :
> user = authenticate(username=username, password=pwd)
> ...
>
> ********************************************
> The user is always "None"...
>
> What do I do wrong ... ?
> It seems to me that everything is OK but the authenticate keeps on
> returning None !
>
>
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