I'm trying to change a user's password on my views.py and whenever I change the password, I lose my connection and access to my account
my view.py:
user = User.objects.get(id=request.user.id)
user.password = make_password(request.POST.get("password"))
user.save()
try using set_password instead of make_password like that
user = User.objects.get(id=request.user.id)
user.password = set_password(request.POST.get("password"))
user.save()
The following is an explanation provided by the Django documentation https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/topics/auth/default/#changing-passwords
A User object normally has a .set_password(…) method [Django-doc], so you can update that password with:
request.user.set_password(request.POST['password'])
request.user.save()You can omit fetching the user object, since request.user aleady does that. Using user = User.objects.get(id=request.user.id) is thus an extra query that only is equivalent to request.user.