# Django as an authentication server

**URL:** <https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-as-an-authentication-server/3224>\
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**Created:** [June 30, 2020, 5:12pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-as-an-authentication-server/3224 "2020-06-30T17:12:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![pandichef](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f05b48/32.png) [@pandichef](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/pandichef)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 5:12pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-as-an-authentication-server/3224/1 "2020-06-30T17:12:17Z")

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I’m a Fintech startup founder based in Detroit. I was wondering if you all could take a quick look at this project that I just open-sourced: [https://github.com/pandichef/djangito](https://github.com/pandichef/djangito)

I’d love to get your thought on whether this could be valuable to a larger community as well as how I might recruit contributors.

Background: A friend recently told me that he uses AWS Cognito for a set of Django projects because they need a common user table. That seemed pretty absurd to me, considering that Django already has a kick-ass authentication system. Similarly, I worked on a hellish Django project myself last year with many Django apps that had little relationship aside from the User table. When I needed to deprecate one of the apps, I had to spend a lot of time changing settings.py, migrations, removing tests, etc.

Thanks!