How to create a user in Django?
The correct way to create a user in Django is to use the create_user function. This will handle the hashing of the password, etc..
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
user = User.objects.create_user(username='john',
email='[email protected]',
password='glass onion')
Bulk user creation with set_password
I you are creating several test users, bulk_create
is much faster, but we can't use create_user
with it.
set_password
is another way to generate the hashed passwords:
def users_iterator():
for i in range(nusers):
is_superuser = (i == 0)
user = User(
first_name='First' + str(i),
is_staff=is_superuser,
is_superuser=is_superuser,
last_name='Last' + str(i),
username='user' + str(i),
)
user.set_password('asdfqwer')
yield user
class Command(BaseCommand):
def handle(self, **options):
User.objects.bulk_create(iter(users_iterator()))
Question specific about password hashing: How to use Bcrypt to encrypt passwords in Django
Tested in Django 1.9.
Have you confirmed that you are passing actual values and not None
?
from django.shortcuts import render
def createUser(request):
userName = request.REQUEST.get('username', None)
userPass = request.REQUEST.get('password', None)
userMail = request.REQUEST.get('email', None)
# TODO: check if already existed
if userName and userPass and userMail:
u,created = User.objects.get_or_create(userName, userMail)
if created:
# user was created
# set the password here
else:
# user was retrieved
else:
# request was empty
return render(request,'home.html')