diff --git a/hc/api/tests/__init__.py b/hc/api/tests/__init__.py
index e69de29b..ad3f004f 100644
--- a/hc/api/tests/__init__.py
+++ b/hc/api/tests/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+from django.conf import settings
+from django.test.runner import DiscoverRunner
+
+
+class CustomRunner(DiscoverRunner):
+
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        # For speed:
+        settings.PASSWORD_HASHERS = \
+            ('django.contrib.auth.hashers.MD5PasswordHasher', )
+
+        super(CustomRunner, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
diff --git a/hc/settings.py b/hc/settings.py
index e755d55e..0c44bf6f 100644
--- a/hc/settings.py
+++ b/hc/settings.py
@@ -71,6 +71,8 @@ TEMPLATES = [
 ]
 
 WSGI_APPLICATION = 'hc.wsgi.application'
+TEST_RUNNER = 'hc.api.tests.CustomRunner'
+
 
 # Default database engine is SQLite. So one can just check out code,
 # install requirements.txt and do manage.py runserver and it works