diff --git a/admin/templatetags/admin_extras.py b/admin/templatetags/admin_extras.py
index b0aa589d4..c6448e6be 100644
--- a/admin/templatetags/admin_extras.py
+++ b/admin/templatetags/admin_extras.py
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ def settings_menu(selection, user):
         {"name" : "permissions",
          "url" : reverse(admin.views.settings),
          "label" : _("Permissions"),
-         "img" : static_url("pics/permissions.png"}),
+         "img" : static_url("pics/permissions.png")},
         {"name" : "addperm",
          "url" : reverse(admin.views.addpermission),
          "img" : static_url("pics/add.png"),
diff --git a/auth/views.py b/auth/views.py
index 92e2fbff3..b503c51aa 100755
--- a/auth/views.py
+++ b/auth/views.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 from django.contrib.auth import authenticate, login, logout
 from django.http import HttpResponse, HttpResponseRedirect
+from django.template import RequestContext
 from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
 from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
 from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _
@@ -34,7 +35,7 @@ def dologin(request):
     next = request.GET.has_key("next") and request.GET["next"] or None
     return render_to_response("registration/login.html", {
             "form" : form, "error" : error, "next" : next
-            })
+            }, context_instance=RequestContext(request))
 
 def dologout(request):
     events.raiseEvent("UserLogout", request=request)