Thanks for the reply. The learning curve to get started has been harder than I expected.
I found this: http://github.com/redvasily/django-emailauth Which seems to handle things well but it's still a hack (it's adding IDs in front of the email to create a username. I ran the setup.py and loaded the code's example but noticed the example app is not using the templates. Do the templates/App get copied to the Django core during the installation? I was hoping to app it: / / emailauth / emailauth/templates And then customize those email templates. Is that they way things are done with Django? did I setup this up wrong? Any advice is appreciated. thxs On Aug 26, 10:19 pm, Shawn Milochik <sh...@milochik.com> wrote: > If you still want to use the contrib.auth app, you can just add your > own backend to the user authentication. It's very easy to do. > > http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/#writing-an-authenti... > > There are some very smart people who prefer not to use contrib.auth > for a variety of reasons, but if you're new to Django it's much *much* > easier to stick with it because there's plenty of documentation, most > people use it, and many open-source apps rely on it. > > Here's a backend I wrote to allow users to log in by e-mail address > instead of username. If you read the docs above then this will make > sense (it's based on the sample in the docs): > > http://dpaste.com/hold/234692/ > > However, this doesn't exactly meet your needs, because it doesn't > address the creation of new users with valid, unique usernames as > required by contrib.auth. What my backend does is, when added to > AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS in settings.py, allow users to log in with > either their username or e-mail address. If you have users who don't > even know they have a "username" then it amounts to the same thing. > > Shawn -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
