django-1.2 will support this. for now, I think the only way to do this is using some hacks like: http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/74/
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Thomas Allen <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am looking for a way to replace the username with the email address > as the unique key for user accounts. Is there a setting in > contrib.auth to allow this? The solutions I've seen so far are hacks, > validating email uniqueness via a form rather than as a model field, > etc. In my mind a clean, acceptable way to do this would result in no > username field at all in the User model. > > Thanks, > Thomas > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<django-users%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
