Django Dev Admin

This project gives you a middleware that allow you to login to any user via django command.

Installation

1. Install

pip install django-dev-admin

2. Add django_dev_admin to your INSTALLED_APPS

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    "django.contrib.admin",
    "django.contrib.auth",
    "django.contrib.contenttypes",
    "django.contrib.sessions",
    "django.contrib.messages",
    "django.contrib.staticfiles",
    ...,
    "django_dev_admin",
]

3. Add django_dev_admin.middleware.DevAdminMiddleware to your MIDDLEWARE after django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware

MIDDLEWARE = [
    ...,
    "django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware",
    "django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware",
    "django_dev_admin.middleware.DevAdminMiddleware",
    ...,
]

Settings

If you are not using default development hostname and port. Please put this option in your settings.py

DEFAULT_DEV_SERVER = "http://localhost:8000"

Use command

python manage.py login_as

python manage.py login_as -u <username>

Production

Please disable this module in production