Using a Simple Password on the Django Admin Page

Disable password validation on the Django admin page

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When developing with Django, you sometimes need to create a new user from the admin page. Since Django 1.9, creating a new user from the admin page goes through password validation:

• Cannot be too similar to personal information
• Must be at least 8 characters
• Cannot be a common password
• Cannot be entirely numeric

When you need to test and iterate quickly, this is very inconvenient, so we want to disable the feature.

Using simple passwords in Django

• settings.py
  • Comment out the entire AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS block
  • Assign an empty list

  # ...
    
  '''
  AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS = [
      {
          'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.UserAttributeSimilarityValidator',
      },
      {
          'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.MinimumLengthValidator',
      },
      {
          'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.CommonPasswordValidator',
      },
      {
          'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.NumericPasswordValidator',
      },
  ]
  '''
    
  AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS = []
    
  # ...
  

Restart the project (python manage.py runserver) and you can confirm that validation is disabled.