Question

When trying to unit test some part of my code, I need a user to be logged in. For reducing the number of fixtures I am using django_factory_boy User factory but the User generated is unable to authenticate.

from django_factory_boy.auth import UserF
from django.contrib.auth import authenticate

user = UserF()
user.set_password('password')

then authenticate(username=user.username, password='password') return None instead of the User. Any ideas about what is missing here?

Answer 1

You should call user.save() after user.set_password() because set_password itself does not save the user, only sets the data.