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In the previous part, we created a custom user model in Django. In this part, I'd like to show how to roll custom authentication. Neither custom user model nor custom authentication are required for the granular role-based access control, but I'd like this series to be a complete tour of authentication and authorization in Django. The code accompanying the series can be found in GitHub. So let's get started!
By default, Django uses ModelBackend as the only authentication backend. It's instructive to look into the implementation of ModelBackend in GitHub: