Flask Framework Cookbook - Second Edition

How to do it...

The implementation of this feature will only require changes to views.py:

1. First, start by importing rules from the Flask-Admin form:

from flask_admin.form import rules 

In the previous recipe, we had form_edit_rules, which had just two fields; that is, username and admin as a list. This denoted the fields that will be available for editing to the admin user in the User model's update view.

2. Updating the password is not simply a case of just adding one more field to the list of form_edit_rules; this is because we do not store cleartext passwords. Instead, we store password hashes that cannot be edited directly by users. We need to input the password from the user and then convert it to a hash while storing. Take a look at ...