Django allow edit user password in admin site - django

Question

I know similar questions has been asked before, but I can't get this to work.
I have overriden the user admin template so i can show only specific fields of the user. This is working.
But I can't edit the user password becouse it appears hashed. I want to ad a link as it was before.
I took a look at the solutions but they didnt worked. My code is as following:
class UserAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
fieldsets = (
(None, {'fields': ('username', 'password')}),
(_('Personal info'), {'fields': ('first_name', 'last_name', 'email')}),
(_('Permissions'), {'fields': ('is_active', 'is_superuser')}),
(_('Important dates'), {'fields': ('last_login', 'date_joined')}),
)
list_display = ('username', 'email', 'first_name', 'last_name')
list_filter = ('is_active', 'groups')
password = ReadOnlyPasswordHashField(label= ("Password"),
help_text= ("Raw passwords are not stored, so there is no way to see "
"this user's password, but you can change the password "
"using this form."))
admin.site.unregister(User)
admin.site.register(User,UserAdmin)
All of this works fine but the password is showing as a simple field and the text doesnt appears...
Thank you!!

Answer 1

You will never "edit" the password because it is not saved "in clear" but encrypted at first.
You could add a link to a different view using AdminPasswordChangeForm.
Documentation here

Answer 2

That's the solution:
password = ReadOnlyPasswordHashField(label= ("Password"),
help_text= ("Raw passwords are not stored, so there is no way to see "
"this user's password, but you can change the password "
"using this form."))
this form will link to it. The problem is that you've miss-placed this. It should be under the UserChangeForm. For example (depending on the User table you're using):
class AdminUserChangeForm(forms.ModelForm):
password = ReadOnlyPasswordHashField(
help_text="Raw passwords are not stored, so there is no way to see "
"this user's password, but you can change the password "
"using this form."
)
class Meta:
model = User
fields = (
'email', 'first_name', 'last_name',
)
def clean_password(self):
...
return self.initial["password"]
class UserAdmin(BaseUserAdmin):
...
fieldsets = (
('Login', {
'fields': [
'email',
'password',
]
}),
...
)
...
form = AdminUserChangeForm
add_form = AdminUserCreationForm