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

I think the most quickly way is to create a form inherit from UserCreateForm, and then override the username field with forms.EmailField. Then for every new registration user, they need to signon with their email address.

For example:

urls.py

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urlpatterns += url(r'^signon/$', SignonView.as_view(), name="signon")

views.py

from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.contrib.auth.forms import UserCreationForm
from django import forms

class UserSignonForm(UserCreationForm):
    username = forms.EmailField()


class SignonView(CreateView):
    template_name = "registration/signon.html"
    model = User
    form_class = UserSignonForm

signon.html

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