Initial changes to support the new Django 1.6 project structure

mayan/apps/common/auth/email_auth_backend.py

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+# From: http://www.micahcarrick.com/django-email-authentication.html
+from django.contrib.auth.models import User
+from django.contrib.auth.backends import ModelBackend
+
+
+class EmailAuthBackend(ModelBackend):
+    """
+    Email Authentication Backend
+
+    Allows a user to sign in using an email/password pair rather than
+    a username/password pair.
+    """
+
+    def authenticate(self, email=None, password=None):
+        """
+        Authenticate a user based on email address as the user name.
+        """
+        try:
+            user = User.objects.get(email=email)
+            if user.check_password(password):
+                return user
+        except User.DoesNotExist:
+            return None