[Answer]-Use two different authentication backends for different types of users

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django provides an AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS setting which should do what you require.

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
    'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',
)

Ours looks like this ….

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
    'social_auth.backends.facebook.FacebookBackend',  # fb backend par social_auth
    'social_auth.backends.twitter.TwitterBackend',  # twitter backend par social_auth
    'backends.EmailAuthBackend',
    'backends.APIAuthBackend',
    'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',
)

In out case, the backends.APIAuthBackend is where we check the supplied user auth token. You simply need to write your authentication code in the def authenticate method of that class which returns a user if the token exists.

The django docs provides more info.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/customizing/#writing-an-authentication-backend

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