Question

I want to make some changes to the data on my production Django server, so I ran ./manage.py dumpdata on the production server, copied the data to my dev machine, and ran ./manage.py loaddata on the same data. However, I can’t login to the admin site on localhost, even though I’m using the same password that I use to login to the production server.

Any ideas why this might be happening?

Answer 1

Take a look at the auth_user table to see if your username is there. If it is, then go into the shell and change your password.

Edit:
Just realized that you can actually go in your shell and check if the current password is what you think it is by using check_password:

>> user = User.objects.get(pk=[insert_id_here])
>> user.check_password('password')
>> True