Question

I need to create custom users in my app.

In the example given in the doc

class CustomUser(models.Model):
    user = models.OneToOneField(User)
    #custom fields

a user must exists before creating a CustomUser.

What I want to do is to create automatically a User when I create a CustomUser.

In the CustomUser admin (only visible by the superuser), I’d like to have only the custom fields and a few fields from the User model, as well as some form to allow the superuser to change the password for existing instance.

Anybody could help?

Answer 1

The first part of your question is easy, you can use a signal:

def create_custom_user(sender, instance, created, **kwargs):
    if created:
        custom_user, created = CustomUser.objects.get_or_create(user=instance)

post_save.connect(create_custom_user, sender=User)

As for the second part, theres already a change password form in the admin. To filter out the displayed fields you can create a CustomUserAdmin and register it together with the model. It’s pretty self explaining in the django docs.

django docs: list_display