Django Tutorial 6 - User Authentication Part 1 - Hacked Existence · Latest

: The core of the authentication system containing fields like username, password, and email.

You can restrict access to certain views so that only logged-in users can see them. Use the @login_required decorator for function-based views. Use the LoginRequiredMixin for class-based views. : The core of the authentication system containing

: Verifies that a user is who they claim to be. Use the LoginRequiredMixin for class-based views

from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required from django.shortcuts import render @login_required def secret_page(request): return render(request, 'secret.html') Use code with caution. Copied to clipboard Copied to clipboard After a successful login, Django

After a successful login, Django needs to know where to send the user. You can define this in your settings.py file.

To allow users to log in, you need to map a URL to Django's built-in login view and create a template for the login form. 1. Update your URLconf Add the path to the login view in your urls.py file: