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| 6490 | 2008-01-28 16:17:47 | 2011-09-11 02:35:54 | 2022-03-06 03:37:17.088669 | Design decision needed | closed | contrib.auth | New feature | Normal | dev | fixed | Accept variable keyword args in authentication | Currently authentication functions accept username and password, but some authentication algorithms may require other types of credentials (such as public keys or ip addresses). Thus the authenticate() function should accept variable keyword arguments to allow such constructs. | nobody | Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@debian.org> | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |