#35767: Don't recommend using a custom user model when starting a new project
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Reporter: Carlton Gibson | Owner: Carlton
Type: | Gibson
Cleanup/optimization | Status: closed
Component: Documentation | Version: dev
Severity: Normal | Resolution: fixed
Keywords: | Triage Stage: Ready for
| checkin
Has patch: 1 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by Tim Graham):
For the record, I think it's premature to remove the recommendation and
tone down the warning, given all the chaos in #25313. Unless the plan is
to deprecate `AUTH_MODEL_USER`...
For instance, comment:29:ticket:25313:
> At the start of our first real Django project we anticipated needing
authentication eventually, so followed instructions from
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/topics/auth/customizing
/#customizing-authentication-in-django. (we expected to use an email
address instead of username for the identification token). We basically
stubbed it until we knew what we needed. For our 2nd project we thought we
would never need authentication so did nothing relating to users. We are
now likely to nuke our databases and rebuild to avoid the migration
complications described in this ticket.
>
> Given the impact of customizing authentication mid-project, why doesn't
the default setup simply create an appropriate stub? Is the problem
choosing an appropriate stub? Maybe that's easier than solving migration?
I just closed #27909 (Use AUTH_USER_MODEL in startproject template) as
wontfix since it contradicts the change in this ticket.
One week since the initial forum post seems kind of fast to conclude a
long-standing discussion about this topic.
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