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Asked: 2026-05-12T05:11:20+00:00

I want to create django users from django application, and then confirming user creation

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I want to create django users from django application, and then confirming user creation by sending them e-mail with validation link.

How can I safely generate this link from user details (I don’t want to generate random value and store it in DB, and I don’t want to use any external modules like Pinax for this)

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  1. Editorial Team

    You’ll want to go grab django-registration and call it a done: http://bitbucket.org/ubernostrum/django-registration/wiki/Home

    This is a simple application which
    provides flexible user registration
    for Django-based projects. The default
    setup implements a fairly common
    workflow:

    1. User signs up for account.
    2. User receives an email containing instructions for activating
      the account.
    3. User activates and begins using the site.

    Docs on how to integrate and use it: http://bitbucket.org/ubernostrum/django-registration/src/tip/docs/overview.txt

    It manages the reg key, timeout period and all processing for activating an account.

    I have used this a few times with slight mods and it is very easy to get going testing using even a gmail account for sending to test.

    Add this to your settings.py in the app to test with a gmail account:

    EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'YOURUSERATGOOGLEMAIL@gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'YOURPASSWORD'
EMAIL_PORT = 587

    Also, django-profiles is a great addition to this django-registration kit: http://bitbucket.org/ubernostrum/django-profiles/wiki/Home

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