Auth has errors in unit tests when Admin isn't in INSTALLED_APPS

[Sam Bull]

The contrib.auth module fails some of its unit tests with errors if contrib.admin isn't listed in INSTALLED_APPS.

This seems to be because contrib.auth is dependent on these templates:

• registration/password_change_form.html
• registration/password_reset_email.html
• registration/password_reset_form.html

These templates are in contrib/admin/templates/.

These are the tests that are failing:

• In ChangePasswordTest:
  • test_password_change_fails_with_invalid_old_password
  • test_password_change_fails_with_mismatched_passwords
• In PasswordResetTest
  • test_confirm_complete
  • test_confirm_different_passwords
  • test_confirm_invalid
  • test_confirm_invalid_post
  • test_confirm_valid
  • "Email is sent if a valid email address is provided for password reset" (test_email_found)

I'm attaching the output from when I run the tests.

PS- There are also errors in the tests if the content type or session applications are missing. This doesn't seem like as much of a problem since those apps are more integral to how auth works. They're also both part of the INSALLED_APPS list by default, unlike the admin app.

[Russell Keith-Magee]

Duplicate of #7611. See ​this mailing list thread for a discussion of the underlying issues. You may also be interested in #4788, which may eventually yield a more attractive solution.