Help a newb with authentication and registration

[Ben Gorman]

I've spent the past few weeks trying to set up a custom (but not unreasonable) user registration and authentication flow using allauth for my site.

- email instead of username

- a (not necessarily unique) display name

- email verification required

(more details and a skeleton project here)

I'm very lost on how to accomplish this.  I've already paid someone $150 through Odesk.com to help me, and although they got it working they didn't explain anything and left me very much in the dark.  

So, I'm looking for people's advice on how I can write and understand the registration/authentication system that I need.  For example, do I need to write my own custom user model or does allauth handle everything I need?  How do I handle superusers?  Do I need to make my own "accounts" app?  Are there good tutorials on using allauth (I couldn't find many)? etc.  Basically I'll take any advice.

Also, if anyone's willing to give me some personal tutoring/help on this topic I'd be very appreciative and am willing to pay.

Thanks

[Nelson Varela]

Hi,

I don't know what allauth does but you can check the django docs about custom auth and user model:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/auth/customizing/

Maybe not what you are looking for but it's a good documentation whichs can help you understand more about this topic.

[Collin Anderson]

Hi,

Here's a nice tutorial:

http://musings.tinbrain.net/blog/2014/sep/21/registration-django-easy-way/

Collin

[Ben Gorman]

@Collin Thanks a ton!