authentication - Django Authenticate returns None

Question

I have the following code snippet:

user = User(username='h@h.com',email='h@h.com')
user.set_password('pass')
user.save()
u = authenticate(username='h@h.com', password='pass') #this always returns None!!!

The problem is, u is always None. I've followed code samples on other stack overflow posts and have narrowed it down to the above lines.

Any ideas as to what might be happening?

Answer 1

Put something like this in your settings

#Authentication backends
AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
        'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',
    )

or if you are using userena for your accounts

#Authentication backends
AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
    'userena.backends.UserenaAuthenticationBackend',
    'guardian.backends.ObjectPermissionBackend',
    'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',
)