Django Authenticate() Allways Returns None

I'm trying to create a custom login-form for authenticating against a remote-server, so I have to create a custom login-form. I have created a user with username='test3', password=

Solution 1:

django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend is an authentication backend and not a middleware class.

You should remove this authentication backend entry from MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES settings.

Also, you need to define AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS to something like below:

# Authentication backends
AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
        'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend', # default
        ..   # any other authentication backends
    )