Is there a good way to do this in Django without rolling my own authentication system? I want the username to be the user's email address instead of them creating a username.
Please advise
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Here's what we do. It isn't a "complete" solution, but it does much of what you're looking for.
from django import forms
from django.contrib import admin
from django.contrib.auth.admin import UserAdmin
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
class UserForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = User
exclude = ('email',)
username = forms.EmailField(max_length=64,
help_text="The person's email address.")
def clean_email(self):
email = self.cleaned_data['username']
return email
class UserAdmin(UserAdmin):
form = UserForm
list_display = ('email', 'first_name', 'last_name', 'is_staff')
list_filter = ('is_staff',)
search_fields = ('email',)
admin.site.unregister(User)
admin.site.register(User, UserAdmin)
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