Always including the user in the django template context

Question

I am working on a small intranet site for a small company, where user should be able to post. I have imagined a very simple authentication mechanism where people just enter

Answer 1

In a more general sense of not having to explicitly set variables in each view, it sounds like you want to look at writing your own context processor.

From the docs:

A context processor has a very simple interface: It's just a Python function that takes one argument, an HttpRequest object, and returns a dictionary that gets added to the template context. Each context processor must return a dictionary.