Django AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS import error

Question

What is the proper way to import a custom backend in settings.py? I currently have the following in settings.py:

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (\'apps.apployment_sit         


        

Answer 1

make sure it's a tuple:

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = ('apps.apployment_site.auth.CustomAuth',)

note the comma at the end

Answer 2

I don't think you need to actually import it into your view. According to the documentation, Django will go through all your authentication backends when you call authenticate().

Thus, just make sure you have all the authentication backends you want in your settings.py.