How to allow users to change their own passwords in Django?

Question

Can any one point me to code where users can change their own passwords in Django?

Answer 1

Django comes with a user authentication system. It handles user accounts, groups, permissions and cookie-based user sessions. This document explains how things work.

How to change Django passwords

See the Changing passwords section

1. Navigation to your project where manage.py file lies

2. $ python manage.py shell

3. type below scripts :

from django.contrib.auth.models import User
u = User.objects.get(username__exact='john')
u.set_password('new password')
u.save()

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You can also use the simple manage.py command:

manage.py changepassword *username*

Just enter the new password twice.

from the Changing passwords section in the docs.

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If you have the django.contrib.admin in your INSTALLED_APPS, you can visit: example.com/path-to-admin/password_change/ which will have a form to confirm your old password and enter the new password twice.