id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	stage	has_patch	needs_docs	needs_tests	needs_better_patch	easy	ui_ux
14390	set_password functionality outside of the User model	kent@…	Łukasz Rekucki	"Today I wanted to use a hashed, salted password in a custom model. Instead of reinventing the wheel or looking for it in other places, I tried to use the Django implementation from contrib.auth. Checking a password was fine as django.contrib.auth.models.check_password is not tied to the User model, but creating it was harder as set_password is a method on the
User model. I had to choose between copying the implementation from set_password or calling set_password on a throwaway User object.

Perhaps the salt-and-hash action from set_password could be placed in a separate public, documented function (make_password? hash_password?) that set_password then uses?
"	New feature	closed	contrib.auth	1.2	Normal	fixed		druidjaidan@…	Accepted	1	0	0	1	0	0