From 31ae68f96e537d435f17788c3b3b9fc90d5a2640 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lance Edgar <lance@edbob.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 15:28:03 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Allow override of user authentication logic for API

---
 tailbone/api/auth.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tailbone/api/auth.py b/tailbone/api/auth.py
index 07c4464d..bf87be27 100644
--- a/tailbone/api/auth.py
+++ b/tailbone/api/auth.py
@@ -82,13 +82,16 @@ class AuthenticationView(APIView):
         if not (username and password):
             return {'error': "Invalid username or password"}
 
-        user = authenticate_user(Session(), username, password)
+        user = self.authenticate_user(username, password)
         if not user:
             return {'error': "Invalid username or password"}
 
         login_user(self.request, user)
         return self.user_info(user)
 
+    def authenticate_user(self, username, password):
+        return authenticate_user(Session(), username, password)
+
     @api
     def logout(self):
         """