Oh, my apologies, the proper argument to set the name of the table that is
created for a ManyToManyField is db_table instead of db_column (which just
controls the column on the user table itself). Entirely my mistake.

Best,
Alex Ogier


On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Christian Jensen <[email protected]>wrote:

> Yea, the column name was the first thing I tried - it had no effect on the
> name of the database table that was created.
>
> I am good with copying the entire ModelBackend I just thought someone
> would either want to document this fact or make it configurable.
>
> Christian
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Alex Ogier <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Django's permission system does expect there to be a user_permissions
>> property on user objects. It's possible to change django to refer to that
>> field indirectly, in the same way that it refers to
>> CustomUser.USERNAME_FIELD, but Django core developers would be unlikely to
>> accept the change because this is a rare use case. Instead, if you want to
>> clean up the database field names, I would try adding a
>> db_column="permissions" argument to the user_permissions field declaration
>> in your custom user model. That should change the database field name
>> without interfering with Django's ModelBackend.
>>
>> Best,
>> Alex Ogier
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Christian Jensen <[email protected]
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> I was tweaking around with making an email address only User model (sans
>>> username) while still retaining the permissions stuff and ran into a small
>>> issue. I can fix it but it might need to be documented.
>>>
>>> Here is the problem:
>>>
>>> I copied over the entire AbstractUser of django.contrib.auth.models.py,
>>> made my changes I needed and just for fun changed 'user_permissions' to
>>> just 'permissions'  because I liked the name in the database to be
>>> 'account_user_permissions' instead of 'account_user_user_permissions'
>>>
>>> When I went to run it, line 44 of ModelBackend died because there is a
>>> hard reference to 'user_permissions' in the line:
>>>
>>> user_obj._perm_cache = set(["%s.%s" % (p.content_type.app_label,
>>> p.codename) for p in user_obj.*user_permissions*.select_related()])
>>>
>>> The only fix I could come up with quickly was to copy out the entire
>>> ModelBackend and fix it there. I am probably an idiot and just not know the
>>> better way to fix this.
>>>
>>>
>>> Christian
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