Django: Custom User model without username field (and using email in place of it)

Readul Hasan Chayan [Heemayl] — Sun, 23 Jun 2019 09:03:48 GMT

Django by default uses the username field for authentication purposes of a user, but it's becoming a common trend to use email field for that purpose. As email identifies a user uniquely, the idea of an additional username field can be somewhat dropped. Also, the email can be used in the places where a username can be used, so it does not break any internal identification structure as well.

In the later sections, when I mentioned the (default) User model please think of the default Django User model (settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL).

So to make sure we're on the same page, our eventual goal is to get rid of the username field and use email field in the User model for authentication purposes.

Now, let's check out the usual ways to modify/extend the django User model:

Readul Hasan Chayan [Heemayl] (Posts about authentication)

Django: Custom User model without username field (and using email in place of it)