Django Email As User Name

Question

Is there any way I can use email as user name with out specifying custom user model. I am new to django, From past few hour I am searching and trying to find a way. I try creating custom modal but then everything get changed like admin login.

Secondly is there any way to define a custom model for specific app. eg. fronted only. So that back-end stay as is.

I just need to use email as username for users login.

Is it possible to use

USERNAME_FIELD = 'email'

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5773970/django-auth-user-with-unique-email — M.javid, Feb 25 '15 at 05:40
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15668124/can-i-change-the-username-field-in-django-1-5-without-creating-a-custom-user#15681648 — M.javid, Feb 25 '15 at 05:49
@Waqas If you want i can provide the details for how to login using email and without username... — Raja Simon, Feb 25 '15 at 05:51
Why doesn't USERNAME_FIELD work for you? Is it because your email field is not unique? Or because you want to be able to login by username too? — Enrico, Feb 25 '15 at 06:12
For user name field don't I have to define custom model? Which will again change everything. — Waqas, Feb 25 '15 at 15:21

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 02 '15 at 21:42

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I actually end up using django-authtools

answered Mar 02 '15 at 21:42

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 25 '15 at 05:59

Get the email and password using form

email = form.cleaned_data['email']
password = form.cleaned_data['password']

If the given email matches with exiting record.

try:
    user = User.objects.get(email=email)
    if user.check_password(password):
        username = user.username
        user = authenticate(username=username, password=password)
        login(request, user)
        messages.success(request, "Welcome {}".format(email))
    else:
        messages.error(request, "Password not match for  {}".format(email))
except User.DoesNotExist:
    pass

Django Email As User Name

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