Re: Login with email address

Hi Patrick,

I used emails "as usernames" many times in my projects. You can use django-authtools (https://github.com/fusionbox/django-authtools), it has an AbstractEmailUser (https://django-authtools.readthedocs.org/en/latest/intro.html#authtools.models.AbstractEmailUser). You can set your own custom User model, which inherits from AbstractEmailUser, and you will already have an Email authenticated user ready to roll :)

PD: I'm not related anyhow to the app, I just have found it very useful.

Cheers,

Chesco Igual.

On Wednesday, November 4, 2015 at 10:50:34 AM UTC+1, Dheerendra Rathor wrote:

By default emails are not unique in Django. 

There are several approaches you can use:

1. In your login view use email to fetch user and then call authenticate for username. For signup you can use any garbage username!

2. Write custom user model (Just extend User model and change USERNAME_FIELD to email)

3. Write custom user model with no username field. Write an authentication backed also to use email for authentication

4. Use django dev version (They have upgraded username char limit to 254). 

On Wed, 4 Nov 2015 at 14:06 Patrick Breitenbach <pbreit...@gmail.com> wrote:

Is there a current "best" approach or module for signup/login with an email address?

<rant>I can't believe this is not included with django. In fact, it should be the default. 80-99% of services and projects do not use usernames.</rant>

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