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I am having trouble getting the Django authenticate function to work the way I expect. When I create a new user and try to authenticate in the manner described in the documentation, the authenticate() function returns None. I have seen many posts about "authenticate not working", but none of the solutions work for me. Here is a demonstration:

In [34]: user = User.objects.create(username='fakeuser', email='[email protected]', password='abc') In [35]: user Out[35]: <User: fakeuser> In [39]: auth_user = authenticate(username='fakeuser', password='abc') In [40]: print(auth_user) None

It is my understanding that authenticate() in this case should return an object that I can then pass to the login() function to log the user in, but I get None instead. What am I doing wrong?

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You're creating the user wrong. Django will always hash the password passed to authenticate, but you're creating the user with a plain text password.

Use create_user instead.

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I knew about the password hashing, but obviously didn't fully understand what was going on. I knew not to pass user.password to authenticate(), but didn't realize how things worked with password creation. Thanks for the help!
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Django's password hashing is the problem, as Daniel Rosemann has stated in his answer. You can also solve this in two steps:

>>> user = User.objects.create(username='fakeuser', email='[email protected]', password='whatever') >>> user.set_password('abc') # takes plain text and stores the hash >>> user.check_password('abc') True
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Thanks for the added info!

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