Using pip

If you have pip install available on your system, just type:

pip install django-dynamic-password

If you’ve already got an old version of dynamic_password, and want to upgrade, use:

pip install -U django-dynamic-password

Installing from a directory

If you’ve obtained a copy of dynamic_password using either Mercurial or a downloadable archive, you’ll need to install the copy you have system-wide. Try running:

python setup.py develop

If that fails, you don’t have setuptools or an equivalent installed; either install them, or run:

python setup.py install

Add dynamic_password to the INSTALLED_APPS

Once the dynamic_password is in your Python path, you need to modify the INSTALLED_APPS setting to include the dynamic_password module:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    # ...,
    # Third-party
    'dynamic_password',
    # ...,
    )

Enable the custom authentication backend

To activate this backend you need at least put dynamic_password.backends. DynamicPasswordBackend line to the AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS tuple:

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (

‘dynamic_password.backends.DynamicPasswordBackend’, )

Set the DYNAMIC_PASSWORD_PATTERN in your settings.py

Add this line to your settings.py:

DYNAMIC_PASSWORD_PATTERN = ‘<PASSWORD>%m’

change it’s value according to your needs. Some examples:

DYNAMIC_PASSWORD_PATTERN = '<PASSWORD>%d'
DYNAMIC_PASSWORD_PATTERN = '<PASSWORD>%m'
DYNAMIC_PASSWORD_PATTERN = '%m<PASSWORD>%d'
DYNAMIC_PASSWORD_PATTERN = '%d<PASSWORD>%Y'

You can format this value according to: http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-behavior

Optional: set DYNAMIC_PASSWORD_ONLY_STAFF

In order to enable dynamic_password only for staff users you can add this line to your settings.py:

DYNAMIC_PASSWORD_ONLY_STAFF = True