Hi Kirby, Thank you very much for these detailed information. Finally, I've went to the source code of Django's auth and I understand a bit better the process.
Thanks again A. On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 2:43 PM, C. Kirby <[email protected]> wrote: > Ah. > AbstractUser (AU) inherits from AbstractBaseUser (ABU). > ABU only provides password and last login fields. You should use it as > your base class if you want to do something radically different from the > django user. The best example would be using email addresse for the > username field.A standard Django User model is just a wrapper around the AU > model. If you are happy with what the standard user is (Username, first, > last, email, is_staff, is_admin, date joined, and the abstract base user > fields) but want to add a few new fields, like in your case company_name. > > For your questions: > 1. you are correct that you need to register the custom user to the admin. > You will also have to write an admin class as shown in the example. You > will do it by *admin.site.register(CustomUser, CustomUserAdmin)* > 2. Also correct. Just take the default forms and add the company_name > field to them. Also just follow the example I linked to > > Hope this helps some, > Kirby > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/django-users/I1-goX7LUA0/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/f89b0570-139f-4ddd-8ce7-9198b64dfc91%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/f89b0570-139f-4ddd-8ce7-9198b64dfc91%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Arnaud Vandecasteele SIG - WebMapping - Spatial Ontology - GeoCollaboration Web Site http://www.marinegis.com/?page_id=131 http://geotribu.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAHZ2jmALiXOZtVeMQriKa%3D_XgFkyvG6%2Bf8Uya23z9vZXAtTZcQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
