Command

This class provides a command-line interface for changing a user's password within the authentication system. It handles user lookup, interactive password entry with confirmation, and password validation before updating the database. The class supports specifying a target username and a specific database alias for the operation.

Attributes

Attribute	Type	Description
help	string = "Change a user's password for django.contrib.auth."	Change a user's password for django.contrib.auth.
requires_migrations_checks	boolean = true	Indicates whether the command should verify that all migrations have been applied before running.
requires_system_checks	list = []	A list of system checks that must be performed before the command is executed.

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Methods

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add_arguments()

@classmethod
def add_arguments(
    parser: ArgumentParser
) - > null

Configures the command line argument parser with options for the target username and the specific database alias.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
parser	ArgumentParser	The argument parser instance to which the username and database arguments will be added.

Returns

Type	Description
null

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handle()

@classmethod
def handle(
    *args: tuple,
    **options: dict
) - > string

Executes the logic to change a user's password, including user lookup, interactive password entry with confirmation, and password validation.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
*args	tuple	Variable length argument list.
**options	dict	A dictionary of parsed command line options, including 'username' and 'database'.

Returns

Type	Description
string	A success message indicating that the password for the specified user has been updated.

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