Re: contrib.auth: Email address instead of username as identifier

2010-04-30 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Felippe Bueno wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Russell Keith-Magee > wrote: >> >> I'm sorry - what is this based on? There haven't been any substantive >> changes to contrib.auth in 1.2. It's not on the official "new >> features" list. There have bee

Re: contrib.auth: Email address instead of username as identifier

2010-04-30 Thread Felippe Bueno
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Russell Keith-Magee < freakboy3...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm sorry - what is this based on? There haven't been any substantive > changes to contrib.auth in 1.2. It's not on the official "new > features" list. There have been some discussions about some potential >

Re: contrib.auth: Email address instead of username as identifier

2010-04-29 Thread Karen Tracey
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Russell Keith-Magee < freakboy3...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:03 AM, Felippe Bueno > wrote: > > django-1.2 will support this. > > I'm sorry - what is this based on? There haven't been any substantive > changes to contrib.auth in 1.2. It's not o

Re: contrib.auth: Email address instead of username as identifier

2010-04-29 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:03 AM, Felippe Bueno wrote: > django-1.2 will support this. I'm sorry - what is this based on? There haven't been any substantive changes to contrib.auth in 1.2. It's not on the official "new features" list. There have been some discussions about some potential changes,

Re: contrib.auth: Email address instead of username as identifier

2010-04-29 Thread Felippe Bueno
django-1.2 will support this. for now, I think the only way to do this is using some hacks like: http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/74/ On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Thomas Allen wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am looking for a way to replace the username with the email address > as the unique

contrib.auth: Email address instead of username as identifier

2010-04-29 Thread Thomas Allen
Hi everyone, I am looking for a way to replace the username with the email address as the unique key for user accounts. Is there a setting in contrib.auth to allow this? The solutions I've seen so far are hacks, validating email uniqueness via a form rather than as a model field, etc. In my mind a