[Django]-Django 'AnonymousUser' object has no attribute '_meta'

Came here looking for this error. Our stack is django-oscar + wagtail. It turns out we removed oscar.apps.customer.auth_backends.EmailBackend from our AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS. Putting it back solved the issue.

I believe it’s because you havent hashed the password. This worked for me. Try:

        user = userform.save()
        user.set_password(user.password)
        user.save()

The UserCreationForm() provides for both password and the password_confirmation fields.
Authentication fails in this case because you are trying to get “password” which does not exists, therefore returning user as None.
If you print form.cleaned_data, you get a dictionary similar to this

{'username': 'myuser', 'password1': 'pass1234', 'password2': 'pass1234'}

Changing the raw_pass line should fix the issue:

raw_pass = form.cleaned_data.get('password1')

Cause of Returning None While logging with created user from registration form , in DB it is checking specific user with encrypted password ,but we are saving password in text from that is why if you give even correct username and password ,it is failing

Add below model backends in setting.py file

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

or pass backend to login function itself

login(request, username,password, backend='django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend')

import make_password function and pass password to it which is comming from registration form then it will save password into Db in encrypted form

from django.contrib.auth.hashers import make_password

raw_pass = form.cleaned_data.get('password')
raw_pass = make_password(form.cleaned_data.get('password'))

Django=2.2.4

Ran into the same issue (using Django 2.2).

To fix I added AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'myapp.MyUser' to settings.py above MIDDLEWARE.

From the 2.2 Docs on substituting a custom User model:

" Django allows you to override the default user model by providing a value for the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting that references a custom model: AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'myapp.MyUser'. This dotted pair describes the name of the Django app (which must be in your INSTALLED_APPS), and the name of the Django model that you wish to use as your user model "

I was running into the same problem because I had customized authentication and was passing wrong arguments in authenticate()

You did not share your custom user model, but it could be that you are using email as the USERNAME_FIELD.

class User(AbstractUser):
    email = models.EmailField(unique=True)
    USERNAME_FIELD = 'email'

So in the relevant view, you will need to pass email (and not username) as an argument to authenticate()

    if form.is_valid():
        form.save()
        email = form.cleaned_data['email']
        password = form.cleaned_data['password1']
        user = authenticate(request, email=email, password=password)
        login(request, user)
    ...