django authentication with hashed password or convert it to plain

Question

Lets say I have email of user

user = User.objects.get(email="anyone@anymail.com")

Now I want to login this user like:

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

Authenticate do not take hashed password. But here i can only get hashed password. How can I login this user lets say to change its password

Thank you

are you having trouble logging in or its just password you are stuck at?? — Ajay Gupta, Jul 10 '15 at 10:11
Why do you need to log a user in before you change the password? — Daniel Roseman, Jul 10 '15 at 10:11
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2787650/manually-logging-in-a-user-without-password with an excellent answer by Daniel — Wtower, Jul 10 '15 at 10:12
I'm not entirely sure that answer is still valid. But my point above remains: why do you need to log the user in at all? — Daniel Roseman, Jul 10 '15 at 10:50

Rahul Gupta · Answer 1 · 2015-07-10T11:04:22.167

You don't need to log in a user to change the password. You can use the Django's set_password() helper function to change the password.

from django.contrib.auth.models import User

user = User.objects.get(email="anyone@anymail.com")
user.set_password('new_password')
user.save() # call save explicitly

As per the docs,

set_password(raw_password)
Sets the user’s password to the given raw string, taking care of the password hashing. Doesn’t save the User object.

django authentication with hashed password or convert it to plain

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