Question

I’m trying find out where/when exactly request.user becomes an AnonymousUser. I’ve been searching through the entire Auth backend but I can’t seem find it. Am I looking in the wrong place?

I’m aware that every user that isn’t an Authenticated user becomes an AnonymousUser, but I need to know where/when this happens for some code I’m building.

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

contrib\auth\__init__.py:80

def get_user(request):
    from django.contrib.auth.models import AnonymousUser
    try:
        user_id = request.session[SESSION_KEY]
        backend_path = request.session[BACKEND_SESSION_KEY]
        backend = load_backend(backend_path)
        user = backend.get_user(user_id) or AnonymousUser()
    except KeyError:
        user = AnonymousUser()
    return user