Tag for questions related to custom User model functionality introduced in Django 1.6
Questions tagged [django-custom-user]
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Using Django auth UserAdmin for a custom user model
From the Django.Contrib.Auth docs:
Extending Django’s default User
If you’re entirely happy with Django’s User model and you just want to add some additional profile information, you can simply subclass django.contrib.auth.models.AbstractUser and…

nip3o
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TypeError: create_superuser() missing 1 required positional argument: 'profile_picture'
I get the following error after adding the profile_picture field:
TypeError: create_superuser() missing 1 required positional argument: 'profile_picture'
This profile_picture field is an "ImageField" set as "Null = True".
I have tried the…

Ankush paul
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"django.contrib.admin.sites.NotRegistered: The model User is not registered" I get this error when a want to register my Custom User.
I overwrite default model AbstractUse for authorization through email.
applications.account.models.py
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import datetime
from django.db import models
from django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractUser
class…

Анастасия Руденко
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Manager isn't available; 'auth.User' has been swapped for 'members.CustomUser'
i have problem with my code when i want signup error appear Manager isn't available; 'auth.User' has been swapped for 'members.CustomUser' , i try solotion of other questions same like Manager isn't available; 'auth.User' has been swapped for…

mehdi
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Why authenticate() return None for inactive users?
I have CustomUser like following :
class CustomUser(AbstractBaseUser, PermissionsMixin):
email = models.EmailField(max_length=100, unique=True)
username = models.CharField(max_length=20, unique=True)
…

dan
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login() missing 1 required positional argument: 'user'
Here is my view,
def login_view(request) :
if request.method == 'POST':
form = LoginForm(request.POST)
if form.is_valid():
email = form.cleaned_data['email']
password = form.cleaned_data['password']
…

AJAY RAWAT
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Adding extra field in admin for custom user in Django 1.11
I have a custom user model which is subclassed by AbstractUser with an added custom field.
# model.py
from django.db import models
from django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractUser
class CustomUser(AbstractUser):
ADM = 'admin'
MEMBER =…

Demetris
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How to authenticate a User
I have created two different types of users - truck & company. Here is my registration page for a user
After registering, the data about whether the user is a truck or company will go to the database.
In my login page,
only Email and Password are…

vanam
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How add group for custom user in django?
I created custom model of user using this official docs customizing authentication in Django
But how can add groups and premissions? My django is version 1.9

Sergey Tytarenko
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Custom User model error: AttributeError: 'CustomUser' object has no attribute 'is_anonymous'
Trying to set up a custom user model that extends the base user. Some user will have login information and some will not, but I still want all users logged. That's what I think the error is saying.
In the default Django model they were logged, but…
user11846186
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Access django-custom-user manager method in migration
I'd like to seed a superuser record in a data migration for a django 1.7 project. I'm using the django-custom-user app. My migration looks like this:
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from __future__ import unicode_literals
from django.db import models,…

novon
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Custom user in django raises ValueError
Even this simple example throws a ValueError: Dependency on app with no migrations: myApp during python manage.py syncdb
myApp/models.py
from django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractUser
class User(AbstractUser):
…

Ben
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django-allauth: custom user generates IntegrityError at /accounts/signup/ (custom fields are nulled or lost)
I'm trying to integrate django-allauth with a custom user model (subclassed AbstractUser, but when I test the signup form I get an integrity error due to field (date_of_birth) being null, but the value submitted was u'1976-4-6'
I'm learning the new…

Peter Hanley
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Unknown field(s) (username) specified for User. Check fields/fieldsets/exclude attributes of class CustomUserAdmin
After creating a custom user for my python django app, i started getting the error stated on the title. It only happens when i wan't to add a new user from the admin panel that's when i get the error "Unknown field(s) (username) specified for User.…

Comforti Chambeshi
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Writing Django signup form tests for checking new user creation
Implemented a custom user model in Django and allows user to signup using the url http://127.0.0.1:8000/users/signup/. A GET request on this url is displayed like this:
I have written tests for this page. Tests for get is working as expected.
I…

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