Mark a user as logged in using Django-two-factor-auth

Question

I am using the Django-two-factor-auth library for my sites login. Everything is working fine, however when I try to login and redirect a new user to their profile page after sign up using login(request, user) I keep getting redirected to the login page.

The login works fine when the user re-enters their new login credentials however I want to redirect the user straight to their profile page after signup instead.

I am aware Django-two-factor-auth overides Django's built in authentication (Django.contrib.auth), however I am unsure why the login() function is not marking the user as authenticated.

views.py

from django.contrib.auth import login

def signup(request):
... 

  user = signup_form.save()
  login(request, user)
  return redirect('/profile')

Answer 1

You can add that to your settings:

LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = 'yourUrl' # this is the name of the url

Answer 2

Resolved. Turns out the 'is_active' field of the newly created user was being modified by a model signal elsewhere in my code resulting in the user being redirected to the login page.