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A Django app to support email-based authentication.

Project description

Mailauth is a Django authentication app to replace the default username-based authentication with an email-based authentication.

Note: Mailauth should installed & setup before any migration is created.

Quick start

  1. Install the django-mailauth authentication using pip from PyPi:

    pip install django-mailauth
  2. Add “mailauth” to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this:

    INSTALLED_APPS = [
      ...
      'mailauth',
    ]
  3. Replace your default “User” model with with Mailauth’s custom user model In your settings.py module, add or update the following line:

    AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'mailauth.User'
  4. Run python manage.py makemigrations to create your first migrations.

  5. Run python manage.py migrate to apply the changes to your database tables.

  6. Start the development server and visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/ to add new users (you’ll need the Admin app enabled).

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