django/django — pull request #3600 by cherepski (2014-11-22 02:24:55+00:00)
Title: Allow users to specify an authentication backend when manually authentic...

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I've recently come across an interesting use case in which I needed to target a specific AUTHENTICATION_BACKEND when authenticating specific users. I couldn't find a clean way to do this so I thought it might be best to submit a request and see how others felt about it.