Django in Action

6 User management

This chapter covers

• Writing multiuser websites
• Storing user data
• Restricting views to logged-in users
• Preforming authorization in views
• Doing password resets

This chapter introduces you to the features of Django that enable multiuser websites. You’ll learn how user authentication and authorization works, along with the ability to store data linked to a user’s account.

6.1 Multiuser websites

By adding Django Admin functionality to RiffMates, you have already turned it into a multiuser site. At the moment, though, it is rather simplistic: you have administrators who use the Django Admin tools and everybody else. What if you want musicians to be able to edit their own profiles, create bands, and invite people to bands? ...