Migration of auth.user to custom user

[Mike Dewhirst]

I have read widely (including the docs) and been daunted by the notion
of coverting auth.user into a custom user. I have data and wonder if
there have been any recent recipes for doing this?

Thanks

Mike

[Tim Graham]

Some steps are outlined in https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/25313.

[Mike Dewhirst]

On 7/08/2017 11:55 PM, Tim Graham wrote:
> Some steps are outlined in https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/25313.

OK thanks Tim. I'll start the planning. I'll presume Django 1.10 isn't
sufficiently different from 1.8 for which the instructions are written.

I wish I wasn't an underconfident wuss!

>
> On Friday, August 4, 2017 at 3:37:08 AM UTC-4, Mike Dewhirst wrote:
>
> I have read widely (including the docs) and been daunted by the
> notion
> of coverting auth.user into a custom user. I have data and wonder if
> there have been any recent recipes for doing this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike
>

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[James Schneider]

On Aug 4, 2017 12:36 AM, "Mike Dewhirst" <mi...@dewhirst.com.au> wrote:

I have read  widely (including the docs) and been daunted by the notion of coverting auth.user  into a custom user. I have data and wonder if there have been any recent recipes for doing this?

On a related note, I'd recommend implementing a custom user model immediately on every new project, even if you don't intend to change anything on the built-in user immediately. It is as simple as inheriting from django.contrib.auth.models.AbstractUser like this:

class MyUser(AbstractUser):

    pass

And then setting AUTH_USER_MODEL to MyUser. At that point, changes to the user model are handled via standard migrations. 

Obviously this doesn't help existing projects. You'll still be stuck with the foreign key shell game that is implementing a custom user after the fact.

-James