Thanks for the info. I'll check it out.
On Jun 12, 11:06 am, Rajesh D <rajesh.dha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 12, 9:29 am, LeeRisq <leer...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I am interested in changing the primary key of the User model to email
> > and also use that as the username.
>
> > I would like to maintain the admin interface as well.
>
> > I am uncertain about the ramifications of doing this. I understand
> > this change will need to be reflected in other models and some views,
> > but does anyone know just how deep this change would need to go?
>
> If you're mainly interested in making the email field unique (rather
> than a PK), you could use a custom user-creation form of your own. In
> your form, ensure that the clean_email method rejects duplicate
> emails. If you create users through admin, unregister the built-in
> UserAdmin class and reregister your own UserAdmin class that uses your
> custom user-creation form.
>
> If you want to allow login by email instead of by username, here's a
> starting point:
>
> http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/74/
>
> -Rajesh D
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