On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 20:21 -0700, Dana wrote: > Oops i mean username, not password. > > Im not clear on how I can get this to override the django login > functionality. Im reading more up on custom auth backends but Ill > admit it's a little confusing.
You write a custom authentication function that compares the username and password supplied by the user in the login form against the email address and password fields in the User model -- fetch the User instance(s) matching the email address and then use the check_password() method on the User instance to see if it's valid. It should only a couple of lines of code in the skeleton code described here: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/#writing-an-authentication-backend Regards, Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
