Never mind, I realised that I was confused. It turns out that the hardcoded
../password thingy relates to the addition of a matching path in
django.contrib.auth.admin.UserAdmin get_urls().
On Friday, 22 December 2017 02:29:56 UTC, Shaheed Haque wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> In Django 2.0, the help_text for the password field of
> django.contrib.auth.forms.UserChangeForm looks like this:
>
> help_text=_(
> "Raw passwords are not stored, so there is no way to see this "
> "user's password, but you can change the password using "
> "<a href=\"{}\">this form</a>."
> ),
>
> where the curly brackets are dealt with i nthe __init__() like this:
>
> self.fields['password'].help_text =
> self.fields['password'].help_text.format('../password/')
>
> As far as I can see, this works just fine when the form is used as-is when
> logging in to the admin site. However, the hardcoded path "../password/"
> breaks in other contexts. In such other places, I see that doing this
> resolves the issue that ../password does not point to the right place:
>
> from ... import reverse
> self.fields['password'].help_text =
> self.fields['password'].help_text.format(reverse('password_change'))
>
> I have checked, and my
> /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/django/contrib/auth/urls.py does use
> the name implied here, so as far as I can see, it ought to be a safe fix.
> However, I am not familiar enough with Django to be sure of that (or indeed
> if this use case constitutes a bug), so am posting here for advice before
> opening a defect. Please advise if a defect is warranted/desired.
>
> Thanks, Shaheed
>
>
>
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