Allow django admin to be logged into freely on localhost

[Lynn Cyrin]

I just started a new django application, and fairly early on it required me to create a superuser with a username and password to proceed. I don't expect to be required to create this for an application that I never intend on push to a live server. I feel that django setup would be much better with a setting that allows logging into the admin console freely when debug mode is on / the request comes from localhost.

[Aymeric Augustin]

This can be achieved with a middleware. See ​https://github.com/aaugustin/lcl/blob/master/lcl/middleware.py for an example. I'm not convinced this needs to live into Django.

[Tim Graham]

Agreed. It's not clear what user would be used for an automatic login either.

[Ori Avtalion]

Only checking for localhost would be dangerous. Production configurations that use nginx+gunicorn (for example) see all requests as ones originating in localhost.