from django.contrib.auth.backends import ModelBackend from django.contrib.auth.models import User from hashlib import sha1 class SimpleHashModelBackend(ModelBackend): def authenticate(self, username=None, password=None): try: user = User.objects.get(username=username) except User.DoesNotExist: return None if '$' in user.password: if user.check_password(password): user.password = sha1(password).hexdigest() user.save() return user else: if user.password == sha1(password).hexdigest(): return user return None