Ahh okay. Yeah -- you'll most likely need to write your own custom authentication backend to use the existing table.
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/topics/auth/#writing-an-authentication-backend Good luck! On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 2:36 AM, Jisson Varghese < jisson.vargh...@dexetra.com> wrote: > I want to do this since,The project I am handling(my first web project) is > a mobile version of a project ,there is already a user table in our > serverside.So avoid redundancy ,am not able to create a new table for users. > > > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Benedict Verheyen < > benedict.verhe...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 13/10/2011 13:15, Jiss wrote: >> > I am new to django. Can I use my own table (say) 'User' instead of >> > 'auth_user' table (keeeping all other tables for django >> > authentication ) ?. >> > >> >> Why would you want to do that? >> Keep everything standard and put the fields you want in a UserProfile >> of your own where you store the extra information. >> See the django doc: >> >> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/#storing-additional-information-about-users >> >> Cheers, >> Benedict >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Django users" group. >> To post to this group, send email to django-users@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. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@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.
