Django admin site used to have a form to change the password for a user that wasn't the logged in user. You would look at the user's update page, and by the password field, there was a change password link. You would click it, and it would take you to a different page for changing the password. I used to take advantage of that page to allow changing of a user's password, without having to open the admin. In Django 4, it seems to now be missing. In fact, I can't figure out how one would change a user's password other than their own, without writing my own view.

I have 2 questions:

1. Is there a way in the admin site now to change a different user's password?
2. If this view is gone, what is now the best way for a superuser to have a view that can change passwords for a user?

Edit: This is what I see. There is no link to change the password where there used to be.

CodePudding user response：

Are you sure you have checked it right? When you select an user it appears by default in the upper part, just after some semi-blinded parameters of the password.

CodePudding user response：

The problem was when I am using AbstractBaseUser, and the admin site registration I was using admin.ModelAdmin instead of UserAdmin.

from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
from django.contrib import admin
from django.contrib.auth.admin import UserAdmin


class EmployeeAdmin(UserAdmin):
    ordering = ['email', ]
    list_display = ['email', ]
    fieldsets = (
        (None, {'fields': ('email', 'password')}),
        ('Info', {'fields': ('first_name', 'last_name', 'phone',)}),
        ('Address', {'fields': ('address', 'city', 'state', 'zip_code')}),
        ('Schedule', {'fields': ('time_off',)}),
        ('Permissions', {'fields': ('is_active', 'is_staff', 'is_superuser',
                                    'groups', 'user_permissions')}),
        ('Important dates', {'fields': ('last_login', 'date_joined')}),
    )
    add_fieldsets = (
        ("User Details", {'fields': ('email', 'password1', 'password2')}),
        ("Permission", {'fields': ('is_active', 'is_staff', 'is_admin')}),
    )


admin.site.register(get_user_model(), EmployeeAdmin)