Check out django-authtools https://django-authtools.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
Provides a few abstract base classes that make this very easy to accomplish. I'm sure there are other 3rd party apps doing the same. On Thursday, September 12, 2013 2:44:53 PM UTC-6, Abdulaziz Alfoudari wrote: > > This is a continuation of my post on > stackoverflow<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18769729/django-removing-username-from-user-model> > . > > With the introduction of Django 1.5, it was possible to create a custom > User model which is flexible enough to have any user profile the developer > wants created. However, looking at a very common problem which is using the > email as the primary user identifier instead of username, the solution > requires copying most of Django's internal definition of AbstractUser and > that is only to remove the username field. > > A better solution in my opinion is make AbstractUser even more abstract by > removing username field, and allowing the developer to explicitly specify > the field to be used as the user identifier. This will require a tiny extra > work for those that use the current default behavior, but it will also > greatly reduce the work needed for the very common problem of using email > as the user identifier. > > Please share your thoughts and opinions on this. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
