Commit ae5b6627 authored by Tim Graham's avatar Tim Graham
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Added a note regarding django.contrib.auth.authenticate.

Thanks Josh Brown for the suggestion.
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@@ -142,6 +142,16 @@ Authenticating Users
            # the authentication system was unable to verify the username and password
            print("The username and password were incorrect.")

    .. note::

        This is a low level way to authenticate a set of credentials; for
        example, it's used by the
        :class:`~django.contrib.auth.middleware.RemoteUserMiddleware`. Unless
        you are writing your own authentication system, you probably won't use
        this. Rather if you are looking for a way to limit access to logged in
        users, see the :func:`~django.contrib.auth.decorators.login_required`
        decorator.

.. _topic-authorization:

Permissions and Authorization