Best way is to write your own authentication backend I think. Check the docs: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/?from=olddocs#writing-an-authentication-backend
This article might also give you a good idea: http://scottbarnham.com/blog/2008/08/21/extending-the-django-user-model-with-inheritance/ The actual authenticate function might look something like this: def authenticate(self, username=None, password=None): # authenticate with email try: user = self.user_class.objects.get(email=username) if user.check_password(password): return user except self.user_class.DoesNotExist: # authentication with username try: user = self.user_class.objects.get(username=username) if user.check_password(password): return user except self.user_class.DoesNotExist: # neither nor succesfull, so no user exists return None Beware: During registration I have forbidden usernames that might look like mail adresses (just unallow character @). Other than that there might be the rare possibility that people can not login with their username/password credentials if it username is the e-mail-adress used by another account. On Mar 31, 10:03 am, Rama Vadakattu <rama.vadaka...@gmail.com> wrote: > The authentication model provided along with django is based on > username. > > What to do to change the authentication based on email instead of > username? > > To be more specific > ~~~~~~~~~~~ > With username authentication , to login user we do the following > > user = authenticate(name,password) > ....... > login(request,user) > > what to write for the above statements if we are authenticating > using email? > > For form > ~~~~~ > iam planning to write my own form which shows the fields > email,password and the validation. > Is this the correct approach? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
