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 9168,contrib.auth login for should accept an authentication_form parameter for alternate backends,Chris Beaven,nobody,"A more generic solution to #7507. In my example, I want to use email addresses to log in with. But the current AuthenticationForm limits the username parameter to 30 characters. If the form was a parameter, the login view would be a lot more generic.",,closed,contrib.auth,1.0,,duplicate,,,Accepted,1,0,0,0,0,0