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Ticket #4819: auth_with_login.diff

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  • authentication.txt

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    315315    else: 
    316316        print "Your username and password were incorrect." 
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     319Note that a side-effect of a successful call to ``authenticate()`` will result  
     320in the ``User`` object being annotated with the appropriate authentication  
     321backend (see `Specifying authentication backends`_).  
     322 
    318323To log a user in, in a view, use ``login()``. It takes an ``HttpRequest`` 
    319 object and a ``User`` object. ``login()`` saves the user's ID in the session, 
    320 using Django's session framework, so, as mentioned above, you'll need to make 
    321 sure to have the session middleware installed. 
     324object and a ``User`` object, where the ``User`` object must already be  
     325authenticated. ``login()`` saves the user's ID in the session, using Django's  
     326session framework, so, as mentioned above, you'll need to make sure to have the  
     327session middleware installed.  
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    323329This example shows how you might use both ``authenticate()`` and ``login()``:: 
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