evennia.web.utils.backends

class evennia.web.utils.backends.CaseInsensitiveModelBackend[source]

Bases: django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend

By default ModelBackend does case _sensitive_ username authentication, which isn’t what is generally expected. This backend supports case insensitive username authentication.

authenticate(request, username=None, password=None, autologin=None)[source]

Custom authenticate with bypass for auto-logins

Parameters

  • request (Request) – Request object.

  • username (str, optional) – Name of user to authenticate.

  • password (str, optional) – Password of user

  • autologin (Account, optional) – If given, assume this is an already authenticated account and bypass authentication.