(Apologies for the first reply -- my send button misfired…) Hi Michael,
It sounds like something else - not related to the your User model - is going wrong with your app; the error about settings doesn't sound like something the auth system would be generating. Can you run: ./manage syncdb --traceback so we can get the full context of the error message? Yours, Russ Magee %-) On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Michael Muster < michael.mus...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am using django 1.5 and want to add an extra > field to the django user class. > The documentation says that i have to subclass AbstractUser > and add extra fields to it. > > So i tried it, in my app 'news' i have: > > from django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractUser > > class cpUser(AbstractUser): > twitter = models.CharField(max_length=100) > def __unicode__(self): > return self.twitter > > > and in my settings.py file: > > AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'news.cpUser' > > however, after running > > $ python manage syncdb > > i get > > NameError: name 'settings' is not defined > > What am i doing wrong? > > > > best regards, > Michael > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
