Inherit django's default user model in my model

Question

I have a question about django's user inheritance.

I have gone through docs of django where I have seen inheritence of User model if I want to register the user through email and password.

My questions :

What will be the difference on default User model and Custom User model that I will make ? Can I use the permissions and add group in the Custom User model ?

And also what if I want to inherit django's default User in my model ?

class Person(User):
    address = models.CharField(max_length=100)
    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.address

Here the user model is django's default User model ? Can I inherit like that ?

Similar effect with any method: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/44109/extending-the-user-model-with-custom-fields-in-django — Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com, May 10 '16 at 21:47

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 16 '14 at 06:57

based on django specifying a custom user model

The easiest way to construct a compliant custom User model is to inherit from AbstractBaseUser. AbstractBaseUser provides the core implementation of a User model, including hashed passwords and tokenized password resets.

Alse Extending the existing User model can be a good option.

Inherit django's default user model in my model

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