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

@Dave To use {{user.username}} in my templates, I will then have to use requestcontext rather than just a normal map/hash: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/templates_python/#subclassing-context-requestcontext

So I guess there are no globals that the template engine checks.

But the RequestContext has some prepopulate classes that I can look into to solve my problems. Thanks.