Issue with createsuperuser when implementing custom user model

Question

I am trying to implement my own custom user model in Django 1.6 but I am getting this error.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File \"./manage.py\", line          


        

Answer 1

class User(AbstractBaseUser, PermissionsMixin):
    username = models.CharField('username', max_length=150, unique=True)
    email = models.EmailField('email address', unique=True, max_length = 255)
    USERNAME_FIELD = 'username'
    REQUIRED_FIELDS = ['email']

For me above code simply solved problems.

Answer 2

Looking at the code for the management commands, it only prompts for fields in the user model's REQUIRED_FIELDS attribute (as well as username). That attribute contains email by default in AbstractBaseUser, but if you have overridden it - or not inherited from that model in the first place (which you should be doing) - then email will not be prompted, and not passed to the create_superuser method.