One-Time User Authentication with SMS Using Django and Twilio

Question

I am writing a back-end in Django for a mobile app I am creating. I need to authenticate a user the first time they open the mobile app through SMS to verify it is a real person

Answer 1

You can use django-passcode as an app in your project. It exposes APIs to "register" a mobile number and "verify" through SMS based passcode. It uses mobile number and device id pair as unique. It also generates and returns a token for future authorization requests from mobile app. You can use Twilio or any other SMS api to send sms.

https://github.com/sgurminder/django-passcode

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