Accepting email address as username in Django

Question

Is there a good way to do this in django without rolling my own authentication system? I want the username to be the user\'s email address instead of them creating a userna

Answer 1

Django now provides a full example of an extended authentication system with admin and form: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/topics/auth/customizing/#a-full-example

You can basically copy/paste it and adapt (I didn't need the date_of_birth in my case).

It is actually available since Django 1.5 and is still available as of now (django 1.7).