Solved by the Manager adding django.contrib.auth.models.UserManager to the inherited User model.
from django.db import models from django.contrib.auth.models import User as DjangoUser, UserManager as DjangoUserManager class User (DjangoUser): objects = DjangoUserManager() The admin site now works as expected. -- 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.