As the number of services people interact with daily increases, so does the number of usernames and passwords that they need to remember. Beyond just that, each additional place where user information is stored is another place that it could be stolen from, in the event of a security breach. To help mitigate this, services such as Auth0 allow you to consolidate authentication services on a single, secure platform.

In addition to support of username and password credentials, Auth0 has the ability to connect users via social platforms such as Google and Facebook. There is even enterprise-level support including that for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and Active Directory (AD). In this recipe, you'll learn how to connect an Auth0 application to Django, integrating it to handle user authentication.