Unable to log in to the django admin page due to django-social-auth backends enabled

Question

I have used django-social-auth in my project to enable the user to sign in using different social websites like twitter or facebook. For that I have to enable different authentication backends in settings.py like this:

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
    'social_auth.backends.twitter.TwitterBackend',
    'social_auth.backends.facebook.FacebookBackend',
)

By enabling these backends I can not login to django admin page. Where an occurs saying that username of password not correct for a staff user.

I have disabled these backends then admin page is working but I am not able to achieve the functionality of sign in using different social websites. Please help me out in this problem. All the suggestions will be appreciated.

Answer 1

Add django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend to this list:

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
    'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',
    'social_auth.backends.twitter.TwitterBackend',
    'social_auth.backends.facebook.FacebookBackend',
)

when no AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS is specified, backends list defaults to sole ModelBackend