Django 2 by Example

Using Django authentication views

Django includes several forms and views in the authentication framework that you can use straight away. The login view you have created is a good exercise to understand the process of user authentication in Django. However, you can use the default Django authentication views in most cases.

Django provides the following class-based views to deal with authentication. All of them are located in django.contrib.auth.views:

• LoginView: Handles a login form and logs in a user
• LogoutView: Logs out a user

Django provides the following views to handle password changes:

• PasswordChangeView: Handles a form to change the user password
• PasswordChangeDoneView: The success view the user is redirected to after a successful ...