Django Authenticate returns None

django authentication nonetype
David Glass picture David Glass · Sep 6, 2013 · Viewed 14.1k times · Source

I have the following code snippet:

user = User(username='[email protected]',email='[email protected]')
user.set_password('pass')
user.save()
u = authenticate(username='[email protected]', password='pass') #this always returns None!!!

The problem is, u is always None. I've followed code samples on other stack overflow posts and have narrowed it down to the above lines.

Any ideas as to what might be happening?

Answer

Ramast picture Ramast · Nov 5, 2013

Put something like this in your settings

#Authentication backends
AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
        'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',
    )

or if you are using userena for your accounts

#Authentication backends
AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
    'userena.backends.UserenaAuthenticationBackend',
    'guardian.backends.ObjectPermissionBackend',
    'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',
)

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