Re: User not Authenticating.

`authenticate` requires a positional argument (request)

try  userLogin = authenticate(request, username=username, password=password)

On Monday, April 24, 2023 at 5:51:45 PM UTC+1 oluwafemi damilola wrote:

userLogin = authenticate(request, username=username, password=password)

On Mon, 24 Apr 2023 at 17:29, Opeoluwa Fatunmbi <opeoluwa...@gmail.com> wrote:

Let me see your login.html

On Mon, 24 Apr 2023 at 17:28, Lawal Tobiloba Samuel <oluwash...@gmail.com> wrote:

code here:

def loginPage(request):

    if request.method == "POST":

        username = request.POST.get("username")

        password = request.POST.get("password")

        userLogin = authenticate(username=username, password=password)

        if userLogin is not None:

            login(request, userLogin)

            return redirect("home")

        else:

            messages.info(request, "Username or Password incorrect.")

    context = {"title": "User Login"}

    return render(request, "account/login.html", context)

 

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On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 5:26 PM Lawal Tobiloba Samuel <oluwash...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi devs, 

I wrote code for user authentication and login but I am not quite sure of it. On the web interface it keeps displaying username or password incorrect (message set in views.py).

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