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

If you can hook your authentication into the Django authentication scheme you'll be able to use request.user.

I think this should just be a case of calling authenticate() and login() based on the contents of your Cookie.

Edit: @Staale - I always use the locals() trick for my context so all my templates can see request and so request.user. If you're not then I guess it wouldn't be so straightforward.