Django authentication works on a page, but not another - django

Question

I've been working on Django Authentication, but I have stumbled on a problem: login works on a page (the "post detail" page of the blog), but not on the homepage.
This is the part of the base.html that handles this header
{% if user.is_authenticated %}
<span class="glyphicon glyphicon-plus"></span>
<span class="glyphicon glyphicon-edit"></span>
<p class="top-menu">Hello, {{ user.first_name }}!<small> (Log out)</small></p>
{% else %}
<form>
{% csrf_token %}
{% if next %}
<input type="hidden" name="next" value="{{ next }}" />
{% endif %}
{{ login_form.as_p }}
</form>
{% endif %}
The view seems good to me, anyway here it is
def login(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
login_form = CustomLoginForm(request.POST)
email = request.POST.get('email')
password = request.POST.get('password1')
user = authenticate(email=email, password=password)
if user is not None:
if user.is_active:
auth_login(request, user)
return HttpResponseRedirect('/')
else:
return HttpResponse("Your Blog account is disabled.")
else:
print "Invalid login details: {0}, {1}".format(email, password)
return HttpResponse("Invalid login details supplied. Get back to the homepage.")
else:
login_form = CustomLoginForm()
return render(request, 'blog/post_list.html', {})
def post_list(request):
posts = Post.objects.filter(published_date__lte=timezone.now()).order_by('-published_date')
user = CustomUser.objects.all()
user_form = CustomUserCreationForm()
login_form = CustomLoginForm()
return render(request, 'blog/post_list.html', {'posts': posts, 'user_form': user_form, 'login_form': login_form, 'user': user})
I think the core of the problem could be on either the header of the base.html file or on the view.
This is what I see on the homepage (even when I'm logged in)
This is what I see on the post-detail page (and that's what I should see on the homepage too)
Any thoughts?

Answer 1

Your problem is here:
user = CustomUser.objects.all()
and then
return render(request, 'blog/post_list.html',
{'posts': posts, 'user_form': user_form,
'login_form': login_form, 'user': user})
You are passing a queryset result consisting of CustomUser objects as user in your request context. It overwrites the user variable assigned by the django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth context processor.
To solve the problem, simply change the name of the template variable to something else, such as:
return render(...
'users': user})