Django - authentication only with the email

Question

I'm trying to make a custom authentication where I login only with the e-mail address without password. I searched over internet but I don't find a good answer. I'm new in Django maybe this is the reason for why I can't find a solution. Can anyone help me to solve this problem? Thanks

Answer 1

Django django.contrib.auth has authenticate , login methods. If you just want login the user using only email , then get the User object using email and call login method

Example

from django.contrib.auth import authenticate, login as auth_login

if request.method == 'POST':
    form = SomeLoginForm(request.POST or None)
    if form.is_valid():
        username = User.objects.get(email=form.cleaned_data['email'])
        if user:
            auth_login(request, user)

But I don't recommend it. You should validate user using mechanism like password or OTP that's where authenticate method comes