🔐 Django Auth System

A robust and modular user authentication system built with Django. It provides clean registration, login, logout, password management, and email verification flows—ready to integrate into any Django project.

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📋 Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. Features
3. Tech Stack & Dependencies
4. Project Structure
5. Setup & Installation
6. Usage
7. Security Considerations
8. Contributing
9. License

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💡 Overview

This Django-based project handles common user authentication flows out-of-the-box:

• ✅ User registration (with email confirmation option)
• 🔐 Login and logout
• 🔄 Password reset via email
• 🔒 Secure password hashing and session management :contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1}

It’s designed as a standalone app that you can incorporate into your own Django projects as a reusable authentication layer.

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✅ Features

• Register new users with email and username
• Login/logout with Django’s authentication backend
• Reset forgotten passwords with tokenized email flow
• Optional email confirmation upon registration
• Profile update form (email, username, password)
• Clean, minimalistic Bootstrap-based UI

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🛠️ Tech Stack & Dependencies

• Python 3.8+, Django 4.x
• Built-in django.contrib.auth, django.contrib.sessions, django.contrib.messages
• Bootstrap 5 for styling and responsive templates
• Optional Email backend (SMTP/Gmail) for confirmation flows :contentReference[oaicite:2]{index=2}
• SQLite by default (configurable for PostgreSQL/MySQL)

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🗂️ Project Structure

django\_auth\_system/
├── authentication/      # Main app handling auth logic and views
│   ├── templates/
│   │   └── authentication/  # Registration, login, password reset templates
│   ├── forms.py         # Custom forms for registration, login, password change
│   ├── urls.py          # URL routes for auth views
│   └── views.py         # View logic for all auth flows
├── project/             # Django project settings and main configurations
│   ├── settings.py
│   ├── urls.py
└── manage.py

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⚙️ Setup & Installation

git clone https://github.com/MisaghMomeniB/Django-Auth-System.git
cd Django-Auth-System
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Configure email settings in project/settings.py:

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST_USER = '<your-email>@gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = '<app-password>'

Run migrations and start the server:

python manage.py migrate
python manage.py runserver

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🚀 Usage

Access these routes:

• /register/ – Create a new account
• /login/ – Sign in to your account
• /logout/ – Sign out
• /password-reset/ – Request a password reset link
• /password-reset-confirm/... – Set a new password
• /profile/ (optional) – Update user details

Templates are customizable—update them in authentication/templates/authentication/.

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🔐 Security Considerations

• Secure password hashing with Django’s default PBKDF2
• Time-limited tokens for password reset and email confirmation
• CSRF protection and session security from Django middleware
• Optional email confirmation to verify user addresses ([github.com][1])

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🤝 Contributing

Improvements are welcome! You could add:

• Social login (OAuth) integration
• Two-factor authentication (2FA)
• Customizable email templates and styling
• Unit tests for views and form validity

To contribute:

1. Fork the repo
2. Create a branch (feature/...)
3. Implement changes with tests
4. Open a Pull Request

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📄 License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE file for details.