Django-Registration: Email as username

Question

How do I use emails instead of username for authentication using django-registration.

Further how do I enforce this change once I have already installed the registration

Answer 1

For Django >= 1.3 and < 1.5 there's Django email as username on github.

Recently I'm using registration and I switch easily to django-registration-email. It works fine on Django 1.4, reusing the same templates and simply adding REGISTRATION_EMAIL_ACTIVATE_SUCCESS_URL = "/profiles/create/" to redirect to the profile creation page.

Django 1.5 overcome this issue through custom User model where you can specify what field is used as username. As stated in Django 1.5 documentation:

A string describing the name of the field on the User model that is used as the unique identifier. This will usually be a username of some kind, but it can also be an email address, or any other unique identifier.