Logging in manually created userena user fails, why?

Question

I want to be able to log in a manually created Userena user for testing:

From my_app/test/test_views.py

import django.test
from userena.models import UserenaSignup


class MyViewTestCase(django.test.TestCase):
    def test_login(self):
        my_user = UserenaSignup.objects.create_user(username="my_name", email="my_name@gmail.com", password="my_password")
        log_in = self.client.login(username=my_user.username, password=my_user.password, email=my_user.email)
        import pdb; pdb.set_trace()

In pdb:

>>> log_in
False

Why does logging in fail?

I have never used Userrena myself, but with some systems this might be due to user not clicking "Verify your email" link or some other extra limitations forced on the user account creation. — Mikko Ohtamaa, Dec 24 '13 at 16:14

Dragos C · Answer 1 · 2013-12-24T17:16:37.477

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I think that my_user.password is crypted. Try this:

self.client.login(username=my_user.username, password='my_password')

edited Dec 24 '13 at 17:16

answered Dec 24 '13 at 16:34

Dragos C

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This also returns `False` – Bentley4 Dec 24 '13 at 16:40
I removed `email=my_user.email` from my original response – Dragos C Dec 24 '13 at 17:17

Bentley4 · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-26T11:43:45.360

As a reference:

How to create a userena user manually

>>> my_user = UserenaSignup.objects.create_user(username="my_name", email="my_name@gmail.com", password="my_password")

# A userena user that hasn't activated his account with an account confirmation link
# has False for is_active
>>> my_user.is_active
False

How to activate an inactive userena user

>>> active_my_user = UserenaSignup.objects.activate_user(my_user.userena_signup.activation_key)
>>> active_my_user.is_active
True

I found this bit of code here, in the tests of Userena.

How to login a userena user manually

Logging in failed because only a user that has True for is_active can log in. So after activating your user (see above) you log in as follows in a test:

self.client.login(username=active_my_user.username, password="my_password", email= active_my_user.email)
#True

Logging in manually created userena user fails, why?

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