Solved...must add AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS =
["django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend"]
to settings.py
On Thursday, April 21, 2016 at 5:20:38 PM UTC-5, Chris Seberino wrote:
>
> I can't seem to get authenticate to return a User object even when
> password is correct.
>
> I dropped into a Django shell to recreate the problem.....
>
> >>> js
> <User: jsmith>
>
> >>> js.username
> 'jsmith'
>
> >>> js.check_password("test")
> True
>
> >>> django.contrib.auth.authenticate(username = 'jsmith', password =
> "test")
> >>>
>
> WHY DIDN'T THAT WORK ???
>
> Thanks!
>
> Chris
>
>
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