Does Django ship with the authentication templates for use with the django.contrib.auth module?

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Mridang Agarwalla picture Mridang Agarwalla · Jul 11, 2011 · Viewed 13.2k times · Source

I found some under the tests directory but I'm not sure if they are the right ones.

By authentication templates I mean login.htm, password_reset.htm, etc.

Some of the templates can be found at: http://devdoodles.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/user-authentication-with-django-registration/

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Travis picture Travis · May 19, 2013

While the Django documentation explicitly states that "Django provides no default template for the authentication views", I found that it is trivial to use the admin templates. Just enable the admin app, then add this to urls.py:

url(r'^accounts/login/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.login', {'template_name': 'admin/login.html'}),
url('^accounts/', include('django.contrib.auth.urls')),

All of the authentication urls work now, albeit with the Django admin look-and-feel.

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