#20086: UserCreationForm does not support custom models.
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Reporter: efrinut@… | Owner: nobody
Type: Bug | Status: closed
Component: contrib.auth | Version: 1.5
Severity: Normal | Resolution: invalid
Keywords: | Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Changes (by russellm):
* status: new => closed
* resolution: => invalid
Comment:
I completely agree that this is desirable in theory. My problem is that I
simply don't see how it is possible in practice.
The contract for AbstractAuthUser is that the User has a unique
identifying field. We have no prior knowledge whether it is a char field,
and email field, or even an integer field. If it's a char field, we don't
know if it has any length or other validation constraints. And we don't
know if there are any other fields on the user model that are needed for
authentication purposes (for example, you may use a domain and a username
as a pair for login purposes). And that's when you're only dealing with
the *username* field. It doesn't deal with any of the other fields that
UserCreationForm or UserChangeForm needs to deal with.
So, I'm closing this again. However, it's clearly an issue that people
aren't happy with, so if you want to pursue this, please take it to
Django-dev.
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