Backends¶

class userena.backends.UserenaAuthenticationBackend¶

Custom backend because the user must be able to supply a email or username to the login form.

authenticate(request, identification, password=None, check_password=True)¶

Authenticates a user through the combination email/username with password.

Parameters

request – The authenticate() method of authentication backends requires request as the first positional argument from Django 2.1.
identification – A string containing the username or e-mail of the user that is trying to authenticate.
check_password – Boolean that defines if the password should be checked for this user. Always keep this True. This is only used by userena at activation when a user opens a page with a secret hash.

Password

Optional string containing the password for the user.

Returns

The signed in User.