[1.7.x] Stressed authentication should be successful before logging in a user.

Backport of 8e744fa1507b6d425860c54e7673e603279367eb from master
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Marten Kenbeek 2015-03-05 13:09:08 +01:00 committed by Tim Graham
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@ -356,8 +356,8 @@ If you have an authenticated user you want to attach to the current session
.. admonition:: Calling ``authenticate()`` first
When you're manually logging a user in, you *must* call
:func:`~django.contrib.auth.authenticate()` before you call
When you're manually logging a user in, you *must* successfully authenticate
the user with :func:`~django.contrib.auth.authenticate()` before you call
:func:`~django.contrib.auth.login()`.
:func:`~django.contrib.auth.authenticate()`
sets an attribute on the :class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User` noting