You add an alias field or a username field. and you can make the fields that you do not need empty or remove them. A easy way is
db.auth_user.first_name.label='alias' db.auth_user.last_name.readable=False db.auth_user.last_name.writable=False On Aug 9, 1:35 pm, "david.waldrop" <david.wald...@gmail.com> wrote: > Currently the auth systems requires the user to enter first name and > last name. Is there a way to turn this off. I see in the Reddit > example these fields are replaced by "alias", but note in the book > that the fields are required to be in the table. Ideally I want the > user to only enter an alias (as a string so they could enter an email > as a alias) and a password. I do not see how to do this given the > requirements on the alternate auth_user tables structures.