Function make_password

django/contrib/auth/hashers.py:100–119

Turn a plain-text password into a hash for database storage Same as encode() but generate a new random salt. If password is None then return a concatenation of UNUSABLE_PASSWORD_PREFIX and a random string, which disallows logins. Additional random string reduces chances of gaining

(password, salt=None, hasher="default")

def make_password(password, salt=None, hasher="default"):
    """
    Turn a plain-text password into a hash for database storage

    Same as encode() but generate a new random salt. If password is None then
    return a concatenation of UNUSABLE_PASSWORD_PREFIX and a random string,
    which disallows logins. Additional random string reduces chances of gaining
    access to staff or superuser accounts. See ticket #20079 for more info.
    """
    if password is None:
        return UNUSABLE_PASSWORD_PREFIX + get_random_string(
            UNUSABLE_PASSWORD_SUFFIX_LENGTH
        )
    if not isinstance(password, (bytes, str)):
        raise TypeError(
            "Password must be a string or bytes, got %s." % type(password).__qualname__
        )
    hasher = get_hasher(hasher)
    salt = salt or hasher.salt()
    return hasher.encode(password, salt)


@functools.lru_cache