For the project I am working on, we solved this by making a custom auth backend that checks the username against the email column. We've found it to be a nice clean solution to wanting to use email addresses instead of usernames.
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Clay McClure <c...@daemons.net> wrote: > "Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid > development and clean, pragmatic design"—unless you want to do something > seemingly simple like using email addresses for authentication, in which > case you need to monkey patch models and forms to get everything working > right, which is neither rapid nor clean. What began as an innocuous feature > request five years ago is now a high-level, general purpose, abstract, > seemingly insurmountable design problem. The core developers are still > perfectionists, but they seem to have forgotten their deadlines. > > Is there not a simple, pragmatic solution (optional and for new > installations—we're not talking about backwards compatibility here) that > could be implemented until the panacea of pluggable User models gets figured > out? Something as simple (albeit ugly) as wrapping new models and forms in: > > if settings.AUTH_EMAIL_AUTHENTICATION: > > Should these things really take five years? What happened to pragmatic? > > Clay > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-developers/-/KebjFDOOBF4J. > To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
