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Is there a good way to do this in Django without rolling my own authentication system? I want the username to be the user's email address instead of them creating a username.
Please advise
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Configure Settings First we need to configure the email host server in the settings.py for confirmation mail. Add the below configuration in the settings.py file. We used the email-id along with the password and gmail SMTP host server. You can use the other SMTP server as well.
Hello @kartik, First make sure you have SessionMiddleware and AuthenticationMiddleware middlewares added to your MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES setting. request. user will give you a User object representing the currently logged-in user.
from django.contrib.auth import authenticate, login def my_view(request): username = request.POST['username'] password = request.POST['password'] user = authenticate(request, username=username, password=password) if user is not None: login(request, user) # Redirect to a success page. ... else: # Return an 'invalid ...
For anyone else wanting to do this, I'd recommend taking a look at django-email-as-username which is a pretty comprehensive solution, that includes patching up the admin and the createsuperuser management commands, amongst other bits and pieces.
Edit: As of Django 1.5 onwards you should consider using a custom user model instead of django-email-as-username.
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