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models.py : from __future__ import unicode_literals from django.db import models from django.contrib.auth.models import ( AbstractBaseUser, BaseUserManager, PermissionsMixin) from django.utils import timezone from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _ class UserManage...

If you want to get rid of the username field and use email as unique user identifier, you will have to create a custom User model extending AbstractBaseUser instead of AbstractUser. Indeed, username and email are defined in AbstractUser and you can't override them. This means you will also have to r...

Our UserProfile class Create a UserProfile model class with the relationship of OneToOne to the default User model: from django.db import models from django.contrib.auth.models import User from django.db.models.signals import post_save class UserProfile(models.Model): user = models.OneTo...

Django's built-in User model is not always appropiate for some kinds of projects. On some sites it might make more sense to use an email address instead of a username for instance. You can override the default User model adding your customized User model to the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting, in your proj...

Your code will not work in projects where you reference the User model (and where the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting has been changed) directly. For example: if you want to create Post model for a blog with a customized User model, you should specify the custom User model like this: from django.conf impo...