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Code Issues 24 Releases Wiki Activity

Fixed 17764. Improved auth docs. 

Thanks mbt for the report and patch.


git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@17620 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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Paul McMillan 2012-03-02 05:03:52 +00:00
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@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ Django 1.4 also includes several smaller improvements worth noting:
page.
* The :func:`django.contrib.auth.models.check_password` function has been moved
to the :mod:`django.contrib.auth.utils` module. Importing it from the old
to the :mod:`django.contrib.auth.hashers` module. Importing it from the old
location will still work, but you should update your imports.
* The :djadmin:`collectstatic` management command now has a ``--clear`` option

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@ -760,18 +760,20 @@ Django provides two functions in :mod:`django.contrib.auth`:
Manually managing a user's password
-----------------------------------
.. currentmodule:: django.contrib.auth.utils
.. currentmodule:: django.contrib.auth.hashers
.. versionadded:: 1.4
The :mod:`django.contrib.auth.utils` module provides a set of functions
The :mod:`django.contrib.auth.hashers` module provides a set of functions
to create and validate hashed password. You can use them independently
from the ``User`` model.
.. function:: check_password()
.. versionadded:: 1.4
If you'd like to manually authenticate a user by comparing a plain-text
password to the hashed password in the database, use the convenience
function :func:`django.contrib.auth.utils.check_password`. It takes two
function :func:`django.contrib.auth.hashers.check_password`. It takes two
arguments: the plain-text password to check, and the full value of a
user's ``password`` field in the database to check against, and returns
``True`` if they match, ``False`` otherwise.
@ -785,14 +787,14 @@ Manually managing a user's password
Currently supported algorithms are: ``'sha1'``, ``'md5'`` and ``'crypt'``
if you have the ``crypt`` library installed. If the second argument is
``None``, an unusable password is returned (a one that will be never
accepted by :func:`django.contrib.auth.utils.check_password`).
accepted by :func:`django.contrib.auth.hashers.check_password`).
.. function:: is_password_usable()
.. versionadded:: 1.4
Checks if the given string is a hashed password that has a chance
of being verified against :func:`django.contrib.auth.utils.check_password`.
of being verified against :func:`django.contrib.auth.hashers.check_password`.
How to log a user out