Re: Migrating old users into custom user model

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Hi Ben,

On 08/25/2015 03:33 PM, Ben Wattie wrote:
> I have an existing project with migrations, datamigrations and I need a
> custom user model now, not just 1-1 profile so I created one.

Unfortunately, while this is technically possible (I haven't done it
myself, but I know at least one person who says they have), it's very
complex and requires a fair amount of familiarity with the migrations
system and use of the advanced SeparateDatabaseAndState operation. And
nobody, AFAIK, has written documentation on how to do it.

I don't believe this is really an acceptable state of affairs, so I've
filed https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/25313 to at least clearly
acknowledge that it _ought_ to be fixed. I don't know when I'll get a
chance to work on it myself (not real likely unless I revisit an old
project, because nowadays I _always_ start every project with a custom
User model, to avoid this problem). Maybe the ideal scenario here is
that you figure it out and then write the docs on how it's done :-)

Sorry I can't give you a better answer,

Carl

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