Custom Django User Model // DJANGO Tutorial
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users link it when answering questions about replacing Django's default User with an email-based or otherwise custom user model.
Recommended by 2 people across 2 different months, 2018 to 2020.
What it is
A roughly hour-long Django tutorial from CodingEntrepreneurs that builds a custom user model from AbstractBaseUser and a custom user manager. It then covers swapping AUTH_USER_MODEL, loading fixtures, building admin and forms, adding a required field, and writing login and register views.
What people said
Recommends Ankush paul · 2018-03 · Stack Overflow · on “How to hide password in API response?”
It's better to override the BaseUserManager, AbstractBaseUser from django.contrib.auth.models to work with your custom model. Thus it will act as a default User model(built-in model) and it will do all. Follow this link to the guide(Code) [LINK] or Follow this link for step by step brief guide(video tutorial) [this video]
Recommends Salohiddin Yoqubov · 2020-05 · Stack Overflow · on “How to login user from a specific database table of my choice using django”
Here auth.authenticate is suitable for login. Here is the entry through the same model, in which case the If you want to create a custom login , I recommend to watch this video: [this video]
Cites bSr · 2018-03 · Stack Overflow · on “Logging in with e-mail as ldapUser in Django”
User model is already built in Django to use email as username you need to do some changes in that model. use below code to customize your username and paste it in models.py. from django.db import models from django.contrib.auth.models import ( BaseUserManager, AbstractBaseUser ) class User(AbstractBaseUser): email = models.EmailField( verbose_name='email address', max_length=255, unique=True, ) active = models.BooleanField(default=True) staff = models.BooleanField(default=False) # a admin user; non super-user admin = models.BooleanField(default=False) # a superuser objects = UserManager() USERNAME_FIELD = 'email' REQUIRED_FIELDS = [] # Email & Password are required by default. def get_full_
Cites Newell · 2018-08 · Stack Overflow · on “django.contrib.auth.urls is no longer working after creating a Custom User model”
I think if you created your own user profile then you should create your forms and views for this P.S: This is how i understood all the things about AbstracUser [this video]
Cites udaykls · 2019-12 · Stack Overflow · on “TypeError: create_superuser() missing 2 required positional arguments: 'first_name' and 'last_name'”
I've checked other questions with same problem and tried solving with the solutions but none helped. I neither see 'First Name' nor 'Last Name' input while creating a super user in the terminal I've been following this tutorial ' [this video] ' but the tutor doesn't face any problem while doing the exactly same thing I'm doing so there's nowhere I could find solution This is my models.py from django.db import models from django.contrib.auth.models import( AbstractBaseUser, BaseUserManager ) class UserManager(BaseUserManager): def create_user(self, first_name, last_name, email, password=None, is_active=True, is_staff=False, is_admin=False): if not first_name: raise ValueError("Users must have an f