Question

I don’t like models.User, but I like Admin view, and I will keep admin view in my application.

How to overwirte models.User ?
Make it just look like following:

from django.contrib.auth.models import User

class ShugeUser(User) 
    username = EmailField(uniqute=True, verbose_name='EMail as your 
username', ...) 
    email = CharField(verbose_name='Nickname, ...) 

User = ShugeUser 

Answer 1

That isn’t possible right now. If all you want is to use the email address as the username, you could write a custom auth backend that checks if the email/password combination is correct instead of the username/password combination (here‘s an example from djangosnippets.org).

If you want more, you’ll have to hack up Django pretty badly, or wait until Django better supports subclassing of the User model (according to this conversation on the django-users mailing list, it could happen as soon as Django 1.2, but don’t count on it).