Re: User model optional

Thanks, Joseph and Scot. I'll take a look at using Django's User model. VB On Nov 21, 9:29 am, Scot Hacker wrote: > On Nov 20, 2:55 pm, VB wrote: > > > If I intend to write my own authentication, can I use my define my own > > User model? Or, am I better off naming the model something else? > >

Re: User model optional

On Nov 20, 2:55 pm, VB wrote: > If I intend to write my own authentication, can I use my define my own > User model? Or, am I better off naming the model something else? > Why write your own authentication? That wheel's been invented so excellently by django-registration (and its equally indisp

Re: User model optional

You can - it's just Python, so you can do virtually anything - auth is a contrib module, so you can just choose not to use it. But the User model does a ton of work and is hooked into many other modules - including all the base auth layer you might want to build your custom authorization on top of.