Thanks for the great information. I've tinkered with it and it seems to be working pretty good. Still need to make the email unique but all in all a pretty good solution.
What do you think about using django-registration instead? Does anybody know of a pro/con comparison of the built-in auth versus django-registration? On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Shawn Milochik <sh...@milochik.com> wrote: > Yes, it's very easy to do. > > For the e-mail address as the login, all you have to do is create your own > auth backend. That is a LOT simpler than it sounds -- just a few lines of > code. > > > http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/#writing-an-authentication-backend > > As for the need to activate their account, that's very simply handled in > your custom auth backend, since you'll be writing it anyway. Just check for > activation status in your custom authenticate function. > > Here's my "custom" auth backend. It uses the e-mail address for the login. > You'll still have to give the User instance a unique username, but then you > can ignore it. You can copy this verbatim and be done, other than > "activating" the account, which you can easily work out. > > http://dpaste.com/hold/308215/ > > Note: If you can work with the 1.3 beta (and eventually the final release), > then you can just use the e-mail address as the username, as they've > expanded the allowed characters in the username field of the User model. > Chances are you can do that, since 1.3 is scheduled for final release in a > few weeks. > > 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<django-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > -- Micah Carrick, Founder *Green Tackle* - *Environmentally Friendly Fishing Tackle* www.GreenTackle.com <http://www.greentackle.com> Email: mi...@greentackle.com Phone: 971.270.2206 Toll Free: 877.580.9165 Fax: 503.946.3106 -- 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.
