ensuring unique email address with django-social-auth

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I was looking around the documentation for django-social-auth but I can't seem to find a setting that will enforce unique emails for user accounts.

Is there any way of accomplishing this?

what do you mean ? 2 accounts with 1 email ? or an account with several emails ? — SpiXel, Aug 23 '12 at 22:09
I created an account through the regular django-auth system, then used social-auth with facebook and another account was created, so two user accounts have email example@ex.com — AlexBrand, Aug 23 '12 at 22:10
possible duplicate of [How to have unique emails with python social auth](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19273904/how-to-have-unique-emails-with-python-social-auth) — neves, Oct 10 '13 at 20:17

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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I believe the answer can be found in this other question.

It says to put another step in edit the SOCIAL_AUTH_PIPELINE. I believe this this is a simpler solution.

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score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 23 '12 at 22:21

The easiest thing to do is subclass the UserManager class, and overwrite its create_user method to check that there isn't a User instance with that email address in the database (django-social-auth uses create_user to...create users on registration). A bit more on how to set this up is on the Configuration page of the django-social-auth docs. You'll then need to subclass User as well, so that you can associate the custom manager with it. More on model Managers from the Django docs.

ensuring unique email address with django-social-auth

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