Django Multiple Authentication Backend for one project, HOW?

Question

Need serious help here.

I have an application written in django/python and I have to extend it and include some other solution as an \"app\" in this application. For

Answer 1

I've been through this problem before. This is the code I used.

This is the authentication backend at the api/backend.py

from django.contrib.auth.models import User


class EmailOrUsernameModelBackend(object):

    def authenticate(self, username=None, password=None):
        if '@' in username:
            kwargs = {'email': username}
        else:
             kwargs = {'username': username}
        try:
            user = User.objects.get(**kwargs)
            if user.check_password(password):
                return user
        except User.DoesNotExist:
            return None

    def get_user(self, user_id):
        try:
            return User.objects.get(pk=user_id)
        except User.DoesNotExist:
            return None

And this is my settings.py

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
    'api.backend.EmailOrUsernameModelBackend',
    'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',
)

Hope it helps. Please tell me if you're still in trouble. This code will enable you to use email to authenticate the default Django user even in Django admin.