How to automatically login a user after registration in django

Question

This is what I am currently using for registration:

def register(request):     if request.method == 'POST':         form = UserCreationForm(request.POST)         if form.is_valid():             new_user = form.save()             messages.info(request, "Thanks for registering. Please login to continue.")             return HttpResponseRedirect("/dashboard/")     else:         form = UserCreationForm()     return render_to_response("accounts/register.html", {         'form': form,     }, context_instance=RequestContext(request)) 

Is it possible not to require the user to login manually after creating an account, but rather simply to log them in automatically? Thanks.

edit: I had tried the login() function without success. I believe the problem is that AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS was not set.

Answer 1

Using the authenticate() and login() functions:

from django.contrib.auth import authenticate, login  def register(request):     if request.method == 'POST':         form = UserCreationForm(request.POST)         if form.is_valid():             new_user = form.save()             messages.info(request, "Thanks for registering. You are now logged in.")             new_user = authenticate(username=form.cleaned_data['username'],                                     password=form.cleaned_data['password1'],                                     )             login(request, new_user)             return HttpResponseRedirect("/dashboard/") 

Answer 2

for class based views here was the code that worked for me (originally Django 1.7, updated for 2.1)

from django.contrib.auth import authenticate, login from django.contrib.auth.forms import UserCreationForm from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect from django.views.generic import FormView  class SignUp(FormView):     template_name = 'signup.html'     form_class = UserCreateForm     success_url='/account'      def form_valid(self, form):         #save the new user first         form.save()         #get the username and password         username = self.request.POST['username']         password = self.request.POST['password1']         #authenticate user then login         user = authenticate(username=username, password=password)         login(self.request, user)         return HttpResponseRedirect(self.get_success_url)