Why authenticate not returning User object in this case?

[Chris Seberino]

I can't seem to get authenticate to return a User object even when password is correct.

I dropped into a Django shell to recreate the problem.....

>>> js

<User: jsmith>

>>> js.username

'jsmith'

>>> js.check_password("test")

True

>>> django.contrib.auth.authenticate(username = 'jsmith', password = "test")

>>> 

WHY DIDN'T THAT WORK ???

Thanks!

Chris 

[Chris Seberino]

Solved...must add AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = ["django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend"]

to settings.py