Re: Setting an unusable password on an existing user

Thanks Paul,

I have tried this on the Django shell and works for me as well.

Since I am using some third party software to do social site
authentication I might have made a mistake and not accessed the actual
django user object.

Thanks once again.

nav

On Friday 21 September 2012 03:17 PM, Paul Backhouse wrote:
> Works for me...
>
>>>> from django.contrib.auth.models import User
>>>> user = User.objects.latest('id')
>>>> user.has_usable_password()
> True
>>>> user.set_unusable_password()
>>>> user.has_usable_password()
> False
>
>
> On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 23:16 -0700, nav wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there any way to set the password of an existing user to and
>> unusable value like none?
>>
>> I tried user.set_unusable_password() and subsequently user.save() but
>> this did not work.
>>
>> Other than using this method is there a way to set the password to
>> None or such like so that the user.has_usable_password() method will
>> return False instead of True?
>>
>> Many Thanks,
>> nav
>>
>>
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