How can I disable user management in Wagtail?

[Chad Saunders]

I'd like to disable and hide the link to user management in the settings and let Django's admin take care of it.  What is the best way to do this?

[Matthew Westcott]

Hi Chad,
Removing 'wagtail.wagtailusers' from the INSTALLED_APPS list in your settings file should achieve that (and also remove the Groups menu, which may or may not be what you want...)

Cheers,
- Matt

[Chad Saunders]

Oh, simple enough.  Thanks!

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[Chad Saunders]

I upgraded to the latest version of wagtail and to Django 1.8.  The problem I'm running into is that the User model I use doesn't have a "username" field. It uses the "email" field as the username field.  Wagtail doesn't seem to like this though.  I thought I had disabled Wagtail's user management by removing "wagtail.wagtailusers" from the INSTALLED_APPS.

Any ideas to get around this error?

[13/Jul/2015 12:33:26]"GET /admin HTTP/1.1" 500 59

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/wsgiref/handlers.py", line 85, in run

    self.result = application(self.environ, self.start_response)

  File "/Users/chad/.virtualenvs/rbi/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/handlers.py", line 63, in __call__

    return self.application(environ, start_response)

  File "/Users/chad/.virtualenvs/rbi/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/wsgi.py", line 170, in __call__

    self.load_middleware()

  File "/Users/chad/.virtualenvs/rbi/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 52, in load_middleware

    mw_instance = mw_class()

  File "/Users/chad/.virtualenvs/rbi/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/middleware/locale.py", line 24, in __init__

    for url_pattern in get_resolver(None).url_patterns:

  File "/Users/chad/.virtualenvs/rbi/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/urlresolvers.py", line 402, in url_patterns

    patterns = getattr(self.urlconf_module, "urlpatterns", self.urlconf_module)

  File "/Users/chad/.virtualenvs/rbi/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/urlresolvers.py", line 396, in urlconf_module

    self._urlconf_module = import_module(self.urlconf_name)

  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/importlib/__init__.py", line 37, in import_module

    __import__(name)

  File "/Users/chad/Development/rbi/rbi-com-saleor/server/saleor/urls.py", line 6, in <module>

    from wagtail.wagtailadmin import urls as wagtailadmin_urls

  File "/Users/chad/.virtualenvs/rbi/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wagtail/wagtailadmin/urls.py", line 7, in <module>

    from wagtail.wagtailadmin.views import account, chooser, home, pages, tags, userbar, page_privacy

  File "/Users/chad/.virtualenvs/rbi/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wagtail/wagtailadmin/views/account.py", line 12, in <module>

    from wagtail.wagtailusers.forms import NotificationPreferencesForm

  File "/Users/chad/.virtualenvs/rbi/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wagtail/wagtailusers/forms.py", line 18, in <module>

    class UserCreationForm(BaseUserCreationForm):

  File "/Users/chad/.virtualenvs/rbi/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/forms/models.py", line 295, in __new__

    raise FieldError(message)

FieldError: Unknown field(s) (username) specified for User

[Matthew Westcott]

Hi Chad,
When you say you're on the latest version of Wagtail, do you mean 0.8.8 or the 1.0 release candidate (1.0rc2)? Version 1.0 includes a fix for users without a username field <https://github.com/torchbox/wagtail/pull/1388>, so you may well have better luck with that one. (It's also the first version to officially support Django 1.8, so if you've already upgraded Django then upgrading to Wagtail 1.0rc2 now will probably save some trouble.)

(Looking at that traceback, it seems that the 'user account' link - in the bottom left of the admin interface - is still reliant on the wagtailusers module, so there isn't as clean a separation between modules as there should be. We ought to fix that...)

Cheers,
- Matt

[Chad Saunders]

Ok that worked.  I was on 1.0b2, not 1.0rc2.

But now when I got to Wagtail CMS in my browser, the main page is blank.  There's no HTML that is returned to the browser and there are no errors in the console either.  Any ideas there?