User not Authenticating.

[Lawal Tobiloba Samuel]

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).

[Lawal Tobiloba Samuel]

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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[Opeoluwa Fatunmbi]

Let me see your login.html

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[oluwafemi damilola]

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

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[Ruby Shell]

`authenticate` requires a positional argument (request)

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

[Lawal Tobiloba Samuel]

I later got what I did wrong...

I wanted to retrieve the user information from the form (request.POST.get("username")), but in d form there was no input tag that is named username nor password...

So when the view function request those informations, it was returning an empty string that was why it did not authenticate.

I just had to add the name parameter in the input tag of login.html

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