How to use Django's PasswordChangeView with a custom user?

Question

I want to use the default PasswordChangeView to change passwords for users in a project. The problem is that by default it works for the current user. Is it possible to use the view with a custom user, i.e. provided in the URL?

# this doesn't work by default
url(r'users/(?P<user_id>\d+)/change_password/$',
    PasswordChangeView.as_view()   
    name="password-change")

You want to change a user's password by accessing a url? Not sure that's a good idea. Do motivate your reason for wanting to do this — Moses Koledoye
– Moses Koledoye, Commented Jun 12, 2017 at 21:19
@MosesKoledoye I think that is a good idea if the current_user that enter to that url is a super admin for example. — Diego Puente
– Diego Puente, Commented Jun 12, 2017 at 23:30
I want for an admin to be able to change passwords for other users. — planetp
– planetp, Commented Jun 13, 2017 at 8:35

Diego Puente · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-13 13:44:27Z

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I think that PasswordChangeView is designed to change the password of a user that is already logged in. Then you have to create a view that inheritance from PasswordChangeView and override the method get_form_kwargs like this:

class _PasswordChangeView(PasswordChangeView):
    def get_form_kwargs(self):
        kwargs = super().get_form_kwargs()
        kwargs['user'] = User.objects.get(id=1)  # or any, or get id from url
        return kwargs

Be sure of add some permissions to this view, for security reasons. By the way the django admin have this option already.

edited Jun 13, 2017 at 13:44

answered Jun 12, 2017 at 23:29

Diego Puente

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planetp Over a year ago

Thanks for the answer. How do I get the URL parameter value in get_form_kwargs() ?

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