Managers

The PasswordHistory model has a custom manager that has the following helper functions:

`PasswordHistoryManager`

class password_policies.managers.PasswordHistoryManager(*args, **kwargs)

delete_expired(user, offset=None)

Deletes expired password history entries from the database(s).

Parameters:

user – A User instance.
offset (int) – A number specifying how much entries are to be kept in the user’s password history. Defaults to PASSWORD_HISTORY_COUNT.

change_required(user)

Checks if the user needs to change his/her password.

Parameters:: user (object) – A User instance.
Returns:: True if the user needs to change his/her password, False otherwise.
Return type:: bool

check_password(user, raw_password)

Compares a raw (UNENCRYPTED!!!) password to entries in the users’s password history.

Parameters:

Returns:

False if a password has been used before, True if not.

Return type:

bool

get_newest(user)

Gets the newest password history entry.