Django Password History

Django module meant to allow django users to keep a history of their previously used passwords.

📝 Table of Contents

• About
• Getting Started
• Running Tests
• Usage
• Built Using
• Authors
• Acknowledgments

About

Django module meant to allow django users to keep a history of their previously used passwords.

Getting Started

Follow these instructions to install and setup django-password-history in your django project.

Prerequisites

The only prerequisites to installing django-password-history is having django 2 installed in a Python 3 environment.

Installing

The installation process for django password history is very simple. Start by running the following command to install the package.

pip install django-password-history

End with an example of getting some data out of the system or using it for a little demo.

Running Tests

The test suite for this package is a work in progress. The initial sample test can be run by using the following command.

coverage run --source django_password_history runtests.py

Usage

In order to use the system you must add django_password_history to your installed apps in your settings.py file.

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'django_password_history'
]

Next you need to define how many historical passwords you want to compare on to the new password when a password is chanced. The default and max is 5 previous passwords.

PREVIOUS_PASSWORD_COUNT = 3

THe UserPasswordHistory has a one to one relationship with your user model as defined in your settings.py file.

AUTH_USER_MODEL = "users.User"

To import the UserPasswordHistory model add the following to the top of the desired python file.

from django_password_history.models import UserPasswordHistory

Built Using

• Django - Web Framework
• Cookiecutter Django Package - Cookie Cutter Django Package

Authors

• David Graves - Working on behalf of Lender's Cooperative
• Roderick Smith - Working on behalf of Lender's Cooperative

Acknowledgements

• Inspiration
• References

History

1.0.0 (2021-06-21) ++++++++++++++++++

• First release on PyPI.

1.0.3 (2021-12-08) ++++++++++++++++++

• Accommodate tenant architecture by checking for a SiteSettings model to see if previous_password_count has been set.
• Second release on PyPI.

1.0.4 (2022-02-08) ++++++++++++++++++

• Set django admin user fields to autocomplete, and change password fields to read only.
• Third release on PyPI.

1.0.5 (2022-08-31) ++++++++++++++++++

• Extend support of password history up to 24 passwords.
• Fourth release on PyPI.