Django-sesame use case : login with mail + magic link

[petijean]

Hello,
Would anyone have implemented django-sesame in a django project to enable the solution "login by mail" ?

• Users without 'username' or 'password'
• Users would only provide an email adress used to sent them a 'magic link' (whose validity would be time-limited) to sign in or log in

[aaugustin]

I told @petijean to post here as I'm not aware of any off-the-shelf solution for this. Apparently no one else does. A search didn't turn up anything.

Solving this requires several parts, but they're all quite straightforward and well documented:

• make a customer user model that uses the email as username
• render a form with an email address fields
• when the form is submitted successfully, generate a link with a token and send an email to the user with that link

The default configuration of django-sesame does the rest.

[aaugustin]

Version 3.0 will contain a tutorial with detailed steps to achieve this.