django user model and custom primary key field

Question

Django by default makes a primary key field on each model named "id", with a type of AutoField. On my models, I'm overriding this to use a custom UUIDField as the primary key by using the "primary_key" attribute. I would also like the User model in django.contrib.auth to have a UUIDField as the primary key, but this doesn't seem to be possible without changing the User model source code.

Is there any recommended way to approach this problem?

Answer 1

One could leverage just the AbstractUser and make the following changes

class CustomUser(AbstractUser):
    email = models.EmailField(max_length=254, unique=True, db_index=True, primary_key=True)
    name = models.CharField(max_length=50)

    USERNAME_FIELD = 'email'
    REQUIRED_FILEDS = ['name']