Django 1.7 User login via Email or Username

[Frankline]

Hi all,

Just started looking at Django 1.7. I've followed the tutorials on https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/.

However, I find myself in a position where I need to login users based on either email or username, AND NOT just the username. I want my users to register using email addresses. This presents some issues with the standard Django user implementation since the authentication backend is still going to look for the username when logging in. 

I am keen to know how developers here implement this in their own Django 1.7 projects. And also what user models are preferable: AbstractUser or AbstractBaseUser.

Any links to example tutorials will also be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Frankline

[monoBOT]

You can implement an alternative authentication backend like so:

on your settings:

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (

    'your_app.backend.EmailBackend',

    'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'

    )

and on "your_app.backends":

#!/usr/bin/env python

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model

class EmailBackend(object):

    def authenticate(self, username=None, password=None):

        user_cls = get_user_model()

        try:

            user = user_cls.objects.get(email=username)

            if user.check_password(password):

                return user

        except user_cls.DoesNotExist:

            return None

        except:

            return None

    def get_user(self, user_id):

        user_cls = get_user_model()

        try:

            return user_cls.objects.get(pk=user_id)

        except user_cls.DoesNotExist:

            return None

So the app checks if the user can be authenticated via your backend and if fails goes to the normal authentication backend.

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[carlos]

Hi, you see the full example in docs 

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/auth/customizing/#a-full-example

Cheers

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