login

Persist a user id and a backend in the request. This way a user doesn't have to reauthenticate on every request. Note that data set during the anonymous session is retained when the user logs in.

def login(
    request: HttpRequest,
    user: User,
    backend: str = None
) - > null

Persist a user id and a backend in the request. This way a user doesn't have to reauthenticate on every request. Note that data set during the anonymous session is retained when the user logs in.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
request	HttpRequest	The current web request object containing the session to be updated
user	User	The authenticated user instance to log into the current session
backend	str = None	The dotted import path of the authentication backend used to authenticate the user

Returns

Type	Description
null	None