Adding several user models

Hi all,

I would love to pick your collective brains for a second. I am working on an application that will be first and foremost an administration system. As such there will be very few users in the system. It will have a front end developed in angular 5 and a Django rest framework backend.

I have got the solution up and running currently and it works as I think it should. However - now I have another idea that I would like to hear your opinions on.

Connected to this system we will also have other portals where a user will be able to login - NOT the same user as the user that logs onto the administration system - but an entirely different concept (a participant). These portals will probably be running on another machine (but not necessarily) and can have their own user concept. This application will also be more of a traditional Django project with a standard view and template driven design.

I am thinking about creating the Participant model separate from the User (they are different concepts) and therefore was wondering if it would be possible to create the Participant model based on an AbstractUser from django contrib auth and then in the portal project use that as the user model?

Has anyone every done anything similar? Is this idea completely wrong? Any other things that I should think about?

My main reason behind this idea is that the applications will share the database, but be completely different projects and shouldn't necessarily share a web app? Is this also a wrong idea or does this sound sane?

Best regards,

Andréas

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