Here's my opinion on this : 1. It requires the.user model to be the first migration 2. You could either want to extend or customise the User model 3. If extending is all you want then use the default authentication
I tried customising it didn't find it worth my time Willy Sent from my iPad > On 13-Feb-2020, at 9:00 PM, bnmng <benja...@bnmng.com> wrote: > > Thanks for the reply. That is a good post and I'll go along with the > recommendation, though I still don't completely understand why adding a > profile isn't as good as creating a custom user, and I wish I could figure > out how to group custom users and auth groups together in the same admin > section > > Ben > >> On Thursday, February 13, 2020 at 8:04:18 AM UTC-5, SikoraD wrote: >> Hi Ben, >> >> I'll highly recommended to read fantastic post on Will Vincent blog -> >> https://wsvincent.com/django-tips-custom-user-model/ >> His approach is much easier than one on django website and it is worth to >> have look. >> >> Also his djangox repo on github is very useful. >> >> Best Regards >> Damian >> >> >>> Hi. >>> >>> I read the part where it's "highly recommended" to create a custom user >>> model, but I don't see why it's worth the headache. I found these problems: >>> >>> 1 In the admin panel, my auth groups are in a separate app from my users >>> 2 There is some disagreement out there about how apps should refer to a >>> user model now that the user model might be custom >>> 3 A lot of features that I would add are app specific, and therefore would >>> be better handled by app specific profiles >>> 4 There's a new entry point for possible errors and glitches >>> >>> So why do this? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Ben > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/3210d917-e796-4b26-a316-fc3974bcfc0b%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/F667FDD1-50AE-4E7B-A129-B12B363DB5C7%40gmail.com.
