I am trying to log a user in and I currently only know the user's email but I know for a fact that it's the correct user. The user has created a password and this is not a log in page.
So the question is how do I log the user in without the password.
I currently log people in using this:
user = authenticate(email=email,password=password)
if user is not None:
login(request, user)
else:
#do something
but I want to do something like this:
user = authenticate(email=email)
if user is not None:
login(request, user)
else:
#do something
Is this possible?
CodePudding user response:
login
takes a User
object, you do not have to call authenticate
to retrieve the user if you really don't want to validate the user
user = User.objects.get(email=email)
login(request, user)