I actually migrated my site to 1.7 and added a custom user model very
easily. Here's a gist with the
code, https://gist.github.com/micahhausler/63636f26cc87bb966218, but
essentially all I had to do was add a new user app, copy the Django
AbstractUser code, and set the db_table to 'auth_user'.
class User(AbstractBaseUser, PermissionsMixin):
objects = UserManager()
class Meta:
db_table = 'auth_user'
Does anyone think this method could be worth adding to the Django
documentation? I'd be happy to open a ticket/write the docs. The only side
effect would be that if someone were using content-types for auth_user
objects, that would need to be migrated.
Micah Hausler
On Friday, February 6, 2015 at 8:10:02 PM UTC-5, Collin Anderson wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I was reminded by:
> Allow shadowing of abstract fields
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-developers/6zUfnElOIks/8uwXji559EsJ
> and https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24288 (Custom User Models for
> small tweaks).
>
> Could we reopen https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/20846 and increase
> User.username max_length to 254?
>
> Personally, that's the only thing I've ever needed to change about my User
> class. I just need it long enough to hold email addresses. I've seen many
> other people wanting the same thing.
>
> In 1.8 we migrated the length of EmailField from 75 to 254, so it should
> be almost™ as easy to change the username field.
>
> If needed, we could keep the 30-character limit on UserCreationForm and
> UserChangeForm for backwards compatibility. The limit in the database is
> the real killer :) Though, consistency is also nice.
>
> Thanks,
> Collin
>
>
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