Fixed #30037 -- Added request arg to RemoteUserBackend.configure_user().

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/auth.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/auth.txt
index 0dfa3a9261..efbffa62c2 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/auth.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/auth.txt
@@ -611,13 +611,22 @@ The following backends are available in :mod:`django.contrib.auth.backends`:
         information) prior to using it to get or create a user object. Returns
         the cleaned username.
 
-    .. method:: configure_user(user)
+    .. method:: configure_user(request, user)
 
         Configures a newly created user.  This method is called immediately
         after a new user is created, and can be used to perform custom setup
         actions, such as setting the user's groups based on attributes in an
         LDAP directory. Returns the user object.
 
+        ``request`` is an :class:`~django.http.HttpRequest` and may be ``None``
+        if it wasn't provided to :func:`~django.contrib.auth.authenticate`
+        (which passes it on to the backend).
+
+        .. versionchanged:: 2.2
+
+            The ``request`` argument was added. Support for method overrides
+            that don't accept it will be removed in Django 3.1.
+
     .. method:: user_can_authenticate()
 
         Returns whether the user is allowed to authenticate. This method