User

Change Password

Locate the user (as we do in the previous snippet), then:

user.set_password('password')
user.save()

Groups

Restricting Access by Group in Django:

u.groups.filter(name='Student').count() == 0

Note: In this sample, u is a user object.

Search

python manage.py shell
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
matching_users = User.objects.filter(username='Stéphane Lechit')
len(matching_users)
user = matching_users[0]
print user.username, user.first_name, user.last_name, user.email, user.last_login