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

Per the documentation, use:

from django.contrib.auth.hashers import makepassword

The main reason to do this is that Django uses hashed passwords to store in the database.

password=make_password(password,hasher='default')
obj=User.objects.filter(empid=emp_id).update(username=username,password=password)

I used this technique for the custom user model which is derived from the AbstractUser model. I am sorry if I technically misspelled the class and subclass, but the technique worked well.