On Nov 18, 1:58 am, john doe <thebiggestbangthe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Thomas Schreiber <t...@insatsu.us> wrote: > > Are you sure the user has been marked as is_staff or is_superuser? > > >http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/#django.contrib.auth... > > No the user is not marked as either because it is my goal to set up a > normal user. I did not know that only users with is_staff or superuser > status can log in via the admin console.
That's what is_staff means, though: the right to access the admin console. There's no point logging someone in who doesn't have access to anything in there. > Is there an in-built view/page to easily let a user log in or do I have to > set up even the user login page and the associated view. It's all provided for you in django.contrib.auth.views - see for example the login function there. You just need to provide a template and a place to redirect to afterwards. > I tried going through the Django user auth docs but am not clear where > should I be putting in the python code for authenticating a user. Maybe I > need to set up a view leading to a form, accept the values and process it. No need, see above. -- DR. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@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.
