Using Django auth UserAdmin for a custom user model

Question

From the Django.Contrib.Auth docs:

Extending Django’s default User If you’re entirely happy with Django’s User model and you just w

Answer 1

Another similar solution (Took from here):

from __future__ import unicode_literals

from django.contrib import admin
from django.contrib.auth.admin import UserAdmin
from django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractUser
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _

from .models import User


class UserAdminWithExtraFields(UserAdmin):

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(UserAdminWithExtraFields, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

        abstract_fields = [field.name for field in AbstractUser._meta.fields]
        user_fields = [field.name for field in self.model._meta.fields]

        self.fieldsets += (
            (_('Extra fields'), {
                'fields': [
                    f for f in user_fields if (
                        f not in abstract_fields and
                        f != self.model._meta.pk.name
                    )
                ],
            }),
        )


admin.site.register(User, UserAdminWithExtraFields)