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class userena.backends.UserenaAuthenticationBackend

Custom backend because the user must be able to supply a email or username to the login form.

authenticate(identification, password=None, check_password=True)

Authenticates a user through the combination email/username with password.

Parameters:

• identification – A string containing the username or e-mail of the user that is trying to authenticate.
• check_password – Boolean that defines if the password should be checked for this user. Always keep this True. This is only used by userena at activation when a user opens a page with a secret hash.

Password:

Optional string containing the password for the user.

Returns:

The signed in User.