It does work. However the "email" field of User should be set to
"blank=False" and "unique=True" if we really want to use email as the
unique userid. How can we override the default field definition of
User.email?
I tried something like this:
from django.contrib.auth.models import User as OldUser
#from django.db import models
class User(OldUser):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
super(User, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
#OldUser.email.blank=False
#OldUser.email.unique=True
class Admin:
pass
But the type of User.email is transferred to 'str' instead of
'CharField' so I'm stuck here.
Thanks.
-- John
On Feb 5, 12:46 pm, "Vasily Sulatskov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Create your own authentication backend that uses emails instead of
> usernames. Something like:
>
> from django.contrib.auth.models import User
>
> class BasicBackend:
> def get_user(self, user_id):
> try:
> return User.objects.get(pk=user_id)
> except User.DoesNotExist:
> return None
>
> class EmailBackend(BasicBackend):
> def authenticate(self, username=None, password=None):
> try:
> user = User.objects.get(email=username)
> if user.check_password(password):
> return user
> except User.DoesNotExist:
> return None
>
> and add to settings.py
>
> AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
> 'publicads.auth.EmailBackend',
> )
>
> Also I autogenerate usernames based on id, something like 'user_5454'.
>
> Works for me
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