How to force a user logout in Django?
In my Django app under certain conditions I want to be able to force users to log out by a username. Not necessarily the current user who is logged in, but another user. So, the request method in my view doesn't have any session information about the user that I want to logout.
I am familiar with django.auth and with auth. logout method, but it takes request as an argument. Is there a "Django-way" to log the user out if all I have is the username? Or do I have to roll my own logout SQL?
Answer
I don't think there is a sanctioned way to do this in Django yet.
The user id is stored in the session object, but it is encoded. Unfortunately, that means you'll have to iterate through all sessions, decode and compare...
Two steps:
First delete the session objects for your target user. If they log in from multiple computers they will have multiple session objects.
from django.contrib.sessions.models import Session
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
# grab the user in question
user = User.objects.get(username='johndoe')
[s.delete() for s in Session.objects.all() if s.get_decoded().get('_auth_user_id') == user.id]
Then, if you need to, lock them out....
user.is_active = False
user.save()