Manually create a Django session

create_django_session.py

from django.contrib import auth
from django.contrib.sessions.backends.db import SessionStore

session = SessionStore(None)
session.clear()
session.cycle_key()
session[auth.SESSION_KEY] = user._meta.pk.value_to_string(user)
session[auth.BACKEND_SESSION_KEY] = 'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'
session[auth.HASH_SESSION_KEY] = user.get_session_auth_hash()
session.save()

Only use this for testing, not for production systems!

Really helped me :D Thanks
BTW, why not use this on production server?

Thank you for sharing this 👍

Worth noting this is totally fine for production, as it very closely matches how Django does it (https://github.com/django/django/blob/3f2821af6bc48fa8e7970c1ce27bc54c3172545e/django/contrib/auth/__init__.py#L126), just that Django has a few more checks around the incoming data. If you need a session to impersonate a user programmatically, this is a good way to go!

Worked for me, GJ!