Django OTP from Django Shell

When securing Django aps with django_otp it can be confusing how to manage these from the django shell.

Some quick notes I could have used recently:

# Enter django shell
python manage.py shell

# Imports
import django_otp

# Get User
user = User.objects.filter(id=100)[0]

# Get Device
device = django_otp.devices_for_user(user)

This is an instance of django_otp.models.Device. Or possibly a queryset of several devices if the user has more than one device. I only tested with TOTPDevice.

There are a bunch of useful methods on this object:

# name
device.name
device.last_used_at

# throttling information
device.throttling_failure_count
device.throttling_failure_timestamp

# throttling reset

device.throttle_reset()

# config url

device.config_url

Hopefully if you’re trying to fix something this helps you, I had to dig a bunch to find it.

Spencer Krum