Login user from different application into Django application

Question

I have a use-case where I have to login a user from different application in my django application.

The user will click a button in the primary application where the user data like username, firstname, lastname and userid is sent to me as jwt token.

In my application I am decrypting the jwttoken and fetching the user data json and then using

django.contrib.auth import login

method to login the user and then sending the response

user = User.objects.get(user_name=user_name)
login(request, user)
response = HttpResponse(json.dumps({'message': "you are successfully logined in"}), content_type='application/json')
response.status_code = 200
return response

where in the primary application then the user is redirected to dashboard of my application whose view is

@login_required(login_url='/testserver/user/login/')
def dashboard(request):
     user = User.objects.get(user_name=request.user)
     return render(request, 'home.html', {'user':user})

The problem is that the user is redirected to /testserver/user/login/ URL and if I remove it @login_required(login_url='/testserver/user/login/'), then i see that request.user is AnonymousUser.

How can I fix this to make it end to end working?

hi you have a type here user = User.objects.get(user_name=request.user) change it to user = User.objects.get(username=request.user).Maybe your problem is here. — Thierno Amadou Sow, Sep 07 '21 at 09:49
No the problem is not there, because the request.user is coming as AnonymousUser — code.k., Sep 07 '21 at 10:04
user = authenticate(username=username, password=password)login(request, user) messages.success(request,"you are successfully logined in!") return redirect('the_url_of_dashbord') — Thierno Amadou Sow, Sep 07 '21 at 10:18
could you please show your views.py for login_url ? i think you are loging a user with only a username that is so bad — Thierno Amadou Sow, Sep 07 '21 at 10:20
Yes I am logging user with password, as custom login due to the requirements. I am following this post https://stackoverflow.com/a/21263363/12847046 — code.k., Sep 07 '21 at 10:28
look at before login(request,user) you use user = User.objects.get(username=user_name) this means that you are just checking the username — Thierno Amadou Sow, Sep 07 '21 at 10:38

Login user from different application into Django application

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