What's the best way to add users with an auto generating username? ie: Taub.John, Smith.Tim, Smith.Tim2
On Apr 1, 3:37 am, johan.u...@student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de wrote: > Best way is to write your own authentication backend I think. > > Check the > docs:http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/?from=olddocs#writin... > > This article might also give you a good > idea:http://scottbarnham.com/blog/2008/08/21/extending-the-django-user-mod... > > The actual authenticate function might look something like this: > > def authenticate(self, username=None, password=None): > # authenticate with email > try: > user = self.user_class.objects.get(email=username) > if user.check_password(password): > return user > except self.user_class.DoesNotExist: > # authentication with username > try: > user = self.user_class.objects.get(username=username) > if user.check_password(password): > return user > except self.user_class.DoesNotExist: > # neither nor succesfull, so no user exists > return None > > Beware: During registration I have forbidden usernames that might look > like mail adresses (just unallow character @). Other than that there > might be the rare possibility that people can not login with their > username/password credentials if it username is the e-mail-adress used > by another account. > > On Mar 31, 10:03 am, Rama Vadakattu <rama.vadaka...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The authentication model provided along with django is based on > > username. > > > What to do to change the authentication based on email instead of > > username? > > > To be more specific > > ~~~~~~~~~~~ > > With username authentication , to login user we do the following > > > user = authenticate(name,password) > > ....... > > login(request,user) > > > what to write for the above statements if we are authenticating > > using email? > > > For form > > ~~~~~ > > iam planning to write my own form which shows the fields > > email,password and the validation. > > Is this the correct approach? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
