django-improved-user 0.2.0

A custom Django user model for best practices email-based login.

This project provides a custom user model that improves on Django’s default by making a few modern and international changes.

• Uses email as the username to simplify login for users

• Replace first_name and last_name with international friendly short_name full name fields

Usage

Perform the following steps in your settings.py file.

1. Add improved_user.apps.ImprovedUserConfig (or simply improved_user) to INSTALLED_APPS

2. Define or replace AUTH_USER_MODEL with he new model, as below.

   AUTH_USER_MODEL='improved_user.User'

3. In Django > 1.9, change UserAttributeSimilarityValidator to match correct User fields, as shown below.

   AUTH_PREFIX = 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.'
   AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS = [
       {
           'NAME': AUTH_PREFIX + 'UserAttributeSimilarityValidator',
           'OPTIONS': {
               'user_attributes': ('email', 'full_name', 'short_name')
           },
       },
       # include other password validators here
   ]

Testing

>From the root directory of the project, run the code below.

$ python runtests.py