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.

Answer 2

This is the command i used, just in case you are having problem in that throw AttributeError: Manager isn't available; 'auth.User' has been swapped for 'users.User'.

python manage.py shell -c "from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model; 
User = get_user_model(); 
u = User.objects.get(username='admin'); 
u.set_password('password123');
u.save()"

Answer 3

Very similar to @Ciro's answer, but more specific to the original question (without adding all the authentication views):

just add to urlpatterns in urls.py:

url('^change-password/$', auth_views.password_change, {'post_change_redirect': 'next_page'}, name='password_change'),

Note that post_change_redirect specifies the url to redirect after the password is changed.

Then, just add to your template:

<a href="{% url 'password_change' %}">Change Password</a>