'AnonymousUser' object has no attribute 'backend'

Question

Using django-socialregistration, got following error:

\'AnonymousUser\' object has no attribute \'backend\'

How,

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Answer 1

Oh man i used to get this error all the time, basically you are calling

self.login(request, user)

without calling

authenticate(username=user, password=pwd)

first

when you call authenticate, django sets the backend attribute on the user, noting which backend to use, see here for more details https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/#django.contrib.auth.authenticate