Is there a built-in login template in Django?

Question

I want to let a user sign in before seeing pages. Is there any built-in template for user sign in, so that I do not have to write my own sign in page?

Answer 1

Similar to mrts’ answer, in more recent Django, you can use the LoginView. You can further customize the template by setting template context like title, site_title etc. as used in admin/base.html so that it doesn’t look like an admin login.

from django.contrib.auth.views import LoginView

urlpatterns = [
    url(  
        r'^accounts/login/$',  
        LoginView.as_view(
            template_name='admin/login.html',
            extra_context={         
              'title': 'Login',
              'site_title': 'My Site',
              'site_header': 'My Site Login'},
        name='login'),
]