From c4f518e484a948af9c2fe370896c3e2ddb492d40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Graham Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 11:17:17 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] [2.0.x] Suggested LoginView rather than @login_required as an alternative to authenticate(). Backport of 3642c3758b3426292e02fe4669cc2d2028a9ac8c from master --- docs/topics/auth/default.txt | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/topics/auth/default.txt b/docs/topics/auth/default.txt index 85398f428f..affabea089 100644 --- a/docs/topics/auth/default.txt +++ b/docs/topics/auth/default.txt @@ -146,9 +146,8 @@ Authenticating users example, it's used by the :class:`~django.contrib.auth.middleware.RemoteUserMiddleware`. Unless you are writing your own authentication system, you probably won't use - this. Rather if you are looking for a way to limit access to logged in - users, see the :func:`~django.contrib.auth.decorators.login_required` - decorator. + this. Rather if you're looking for a way to login a user, use the + :class:`~django.contrib.auth.views.LoginView`. .. _topic-authorization: