Django, request.user is always Anonymous User

Question

I am using a custom authentication backend for Django (which runs off couchdb). I have a custom user model.

As part of the login, I am doing a request.user = u

Answer 1

I had similar problem when I used custom authentication backend. I used field different than the primary key in the method get_user. It directly solved after using primary key which must be number (not str)

def get_user(self, user_id):
    try:
        return User.objects.get(pk=user_id) # <-- must be primary key and number
    except User.DoesNotExist:
        return None