8 User authentication
This chapter covers
- Registering and activating new user accounts
- Installing and creating Django apps
- Logging into and out of your project
- Accessing user profile information
- Testing authentication
Authentication and authorization are analogous to users and groups. In this chapter, you’ll learn about authentication by creating users; in a later chapter, you’ll learn about authorization by creating groups.
Note At the time of this writing, broken authentication is number 2 on the OWASP Top Ten (https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/). What is the OWASP Top Ten? It’s a reference designed to raise awareness about the most critical security challenges faced by web applications. The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) ...
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