Users in initial data fixture

Question

I\'m creating a few users by default in my fixtures/initial_data.json so as to have some testing \"subjects.\" The problem I\'m experiencing is password generation.

Answer 1

OK, I agree with the answers, but let me answer the original questions.

How to get the password "as Django would have hashed it"?

Let's look a the file django/contrib/auth/hashers.py:

def make_password(password, salt=None, hasher='default'):
    """
    Turn a plain-text password into a hash for database storage

    Same as encode() but generates a new random salt.  If
    password is None or blank then UNUSABLE_PASSWORD will be
    returned which disallows logins.
    """
    # ...

See this example session:

./manage.py shell

>>> from django.contrib.auth.hashers import make_password, HASHERS
>>> make_password('test')
'pbkdf2_sha256$10000$vkRy7QauoLLj$ry+3xm3YX+YrSXbri8s3EcXDIrx5ceM+xQjtpLdw2oE='

# fix salt:
>>> make_password('test', 'abc')
'pbkdf2_sha256$10000$abc$MqJS5OAgSmf9SD9mfoY8fgLo8sSKmEcef0AjjMp1Q7w='

# use different (maybe faster, maybe unsafe!) hasher

In [12]: HASHERS
Out[12]:
{'bcrypt': ,
 'crypt': ,
 'md5': ,
 'pbkdf2_sha1': ,
 'pbkdf2_sha256': ,
 'sha1': ,
 'unsalted_md5': ,
 'unsalted_sha1': }

In [14]: [make_password('test', hasher=name) for name in HASHERS]
Out[14]:
['sha1$LdKsAbJRjlVP$2eb2346387cc510f576f2f11eebdfe18b20d1be1',
 'pbkdf2_sha256$10000$Ck8gtWQJnJ9x$M/OqP548d5KcPqFuVRgXb84unjYbYDH6oyimbDndE3k=',
 'pbkdf2_sha1$10000$BJqRu5OwylVF$hUvMLIzBujt9kPbML/dei1vLiMQ=',
 'crypt$$d9grSeqDhMFek',
 '098f6bcd4621d373cade4e832627b4f6',
 'sha1$$a94a8fe5ccb19ba61c4c0873d391e987982fbbd3',
 'bcrypt$$2a$12$WlJP5zm2lmdJ4g/pSE1xF.d/8w.XRT5mo/vGlkKdglBtzcxKw7XJS',
 'md5$txHYmSYJKhD4$69286d4a1abd348fbddc9df7687e2ed4']

You can also manually use the hasher's encode method, but the above utility function has you covered in an easier way.