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 4888 Fix Documentation: User authentication in Django Piotr Lewandowski nobody "In http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/authentication/#writing-an-authentication-backend we read: {{{ An authentication backend is a class that implements two methods: ``get_user(id)`` and ``authenticate(**credentials)``. The ``get_user`` method takes an ``id`` -- which could be a username, database ID or whatever -- and returns a ``User`` object. }}} Meanwhile... {{{ $ svn cat django/contrib/auth/backends.py | grep get_user def get_user(self, user_id): }}} Additionaly code below may suggest it is complete backend class while it doesn't have{{{ get_user() }}}method. {{{ #!python class MyBackend: def authenticate(self, username=None, password=None): # Check the username/password and return a User. }}} " closed Documentation dev fixed authentication django@… Ready for checkin 1 0 0 0 0 0