In order to sign users in after registering them, I manually set the user.backend property. It normally works in my views. In this instance, I'm trying to register the user via AJAX. It is raising an AttributeError.

Here is my code:

 def register_async(request):
    if request.method=='POST':

    userform=MyUserCreationForm(request.POST)
    if userform.is_valid():
        #username of <30 char is required by Django User model.  I'm storing username as a hash of user email 

        user=userform.save(commit=False)
        user.username=hash(user.email)
        user.backend='django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'
        user.save()


        auth.login(request,user)
        user_status=1
        user_fname=user.first_name
        user_data=[{'user_status':user_status, 'user_fname':user_fname}]
        json_data=json.dumps(user_data)
        response=HttpResponse()
        response['Content-Type']="text/javascript"
        response.write(json_data)
        return response 

    else:
        user_data=[{'user_status':"0"}]
        json_data=json.dumps(user_data)
        response=HttpResponse()
        response['Content-Type']="text/javascript"
        response.write(json_data)
        return response 
else:
    return HttpResponse()

EDIT-- HERE'S THE AJAX. IT SEEMS PRETTY STANDARD

     //ajax registration.  
$('input#register_submit').click(function(event){
    $(this).attr('disabled','disabled');
    $('<div class="register-animation"><img src="{{site}}media/ajax-loader3.gif"/></div>').appendTo('#register_modal_btn');

    $.post("/register/", $('div#register_side form').serialize(), 
        function(data){
            $.each(data,function(){
            if(this.user_status==1){
                $('.register-animation').remove();
                $('.right_section .top').html('<ul><li class="sep_nav">Hi, '+ this.user_fname + '</li><li class="sep+nav">&l
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