User is not authenticated in Django? It shows errors

Question

I am creating a website so I finshed register page in login page, every details are correct but that is showing please verify your details I mean the else part also I put in a print statement after username and password same details are printing when I typed but not access login.

views.py

def sign_in(request):
        
    if request.method == "POST":
        username=request.POST['username']
        password=request.POST['password']
        print(username,password)
        user = authenticate(username=username,password=password)
            
        if user is not None:
            login(request,user)
            messages.success(request,"you are logged successfully ")
            return redirect("front_page")    
        else:
            messages.error(request,"please verify your details")
            return redirect("sign_in")   
    return render(request,"login.html")

def front_page(request):
    return render(request,"frontpage.html")

urls.py

 path('log_in',views.sign_in,name="sign_in"),
 path('front_page',views.front_page,name="front_page"),

html

 <div class="signup-form">
        <form action="{% url 'sign_in' %}" method="POST">
         {% csrf_token %}
         <h2 class="text-center">Login</h2>
         <p class="text-center">Please fill in this form to login your account!</p>
         <hr>
   
         <div class="form-group">
           <div class="input-group">
             <div class="input-group-prepend">
               <span class="input-group-text">
                 <span class="fa fa-user"></span>
                         </span>
             </div> 
             <input type="text" class="form-control" name="username" placeholder="Username" required="required">
           </div>
         </div> 
         
         <div class="form-group">
            <div class="input-group">
              <div class="input-group-prepend">
                <span class="input-group-text">
                  <i class="fa fa-lock"></i>
                </span>                    
              </div>
                <input type="password" class="form-control" name="password" placeholder="Password" required="required">
            </div>
          </div>

          <div class="form-group d-flex justify-content-center">
            <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary btn-lg">Login</button>
          </div>
          <div class="text-center text-primary">Dont have a account? <a href="{% url 'register' %}">Create here </a></div>
        </form>
       
    </div>

I just want to login with username and password, but it shows please verify your details, but all the details are correct.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

authenticate() also requires request as an argument so it should be:

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

Your view for registering users should be like this:

def register(request):
if request.method == "POST":
    username=request.POST['username']
    password=request.POST['password']
    confirm_password=request.POST['confirm_password']
    
    if password == confirm_password:    
        if User.objects.filter(username=username).exists():
            messages.info(request,"user name was taken please choose another one")
            return redirect('register')
        else:
            user1=User.objects.create_user(username=username,password=password)
            user1.is_active = False  
         
            messages.success(request,"you account  was created successfully thank you for choosing us ")
            return redirect("sign_in")  
      
    else:
        messages.info(request,"please verify your passwords")
        return redirect('register')   
else:
    return render(request,'register.html')    

Answer 2

The problem with your intial code,

def sign_in(request):
        
    if request.method == "POST":
        username=request.POST['username']
        password=request.POST['password']
        print(username,password)
        user = authenticate(username=username, password=password)
            
        if user is not None:
            login(request,user)
            messages.success(request,"you are logged successfully ")
            return redirect("front_page")    
        else:
            messages.error(request,"please verify your details")
            return redirect("sign_in")   
    return render(request,"login.html")

is that you are trying to authenticate a user that has not signed up yet. This is similar to the code I found in the docs , but that code is to login users, not to sign them up.

The solution, is then:

def sign_in(request):

    if request.method == "POST":
        username=request.POST['username']
        password=request.POST['password']
        user, created = User.objects.get_or_create(username=username, password=password)
        user = authenticate(username=username, password=raw_password)
        login(request, user)
        return redirect("front_page")

    return render(request,"login.html")

Thanks to Sunderam for pointing out my error, the function authenticate() does indeed hash the password, so it will take in a raw password.