marccerrato/django-custom-user

Custom user model for Django >= 1.5 with the same behaviour as Django's default User but with email instead of username.

Django Custom User

Custom user model for Django >= 1.5 with the same behaviour as Django's default User but without a username field. Uses email as the USERNAME_FIELD for authentication.

Quick start

1. Install django-custom-user with your favorite Python package manager:

pip install django-custom-user

2. Add 'custom_user' to your INSTALLED_APPS setting:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    # other apps
    'custom_user',
)

3. Set your AUTH_USER_MODEL setting to use EmailUser:

AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'custom_user.EmailUser'

4. Create the database tables.

python manage.py syncdb

Usage

Instead of referring to EmailUser directly, you should reference the user model using get_user_model() as explained in the Django documentation. For example:

from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model

user = get_user_model().get(email="user@example.com")

When you define a foreign key or many-to-many relations to the EmailUser model, you should specify the custom model using the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting. For example:

from django.conf import settings
from django.db import models

class Article(models.Model):
    author = models.ForeignKey(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL)

Extending EmailUser model

You can easily extend EmailUser by inheriting from AbstractEmailUser. For example:

from custom_user.models import AbstractEmailUser

class MyCustomEmailUser(AbstractEmailUser):
    """
    Example of an EmailUser with a new field date_of_birth
    """
    date_of_birth = models.DateField()