Question

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I have a subclass of User (django.contrib.auth.models.User). I want my site to support both Individual users and Business users, so in this case it’s:

class BusinessUser(User):
    website = models.CharField(max_length=20)
    objects = UserManager()

I have a register form that saves a user as a User and another one that saves my user as a BusinessUser. The problematic case is the BusinessUser:

I have checked through the Django console that both an User and a BusinessUser object exists after registration of a BusinessUser, and all fields are fine (username, email, password).

However, on my login page, I cannot login with my BusinessUser’s. I can login fine with the normal User’s registered, but not BusinessUser’s.

Does anyone know what might be wrong?

Thank you.

Answer 1

You subclassed User. Don’t do that ever. Use profiles to add additional data, and if you really need two separate models (say for having two separate views for individual and business users in the admin) create proxy models and custom managers that filter only individual or business users from User.