how to retrieve password in django

Question

How do we retrieve a password of an user?

u = User.objects.get(username__exact=username)
print u.password

displays sha1$f0971$441cac8

Answer 1

You can check if the password is correct with:

u.check_password("your password")

This method and u.set_password("you password") solves all of your problems.

sha1$f0971$441cac8f604d49869e33ca125a76253a02fef64e is:

hash function algorithm $ salt $ hash code