Thanks for the reply. That is a good post and I'll go along with the recommendation, though I still don't completely understand why adding a profile isn't as good as creating a custom user, and I wish I could figure out how to group custom users and auth groups together in the same admin section
Ben On Thursday, February 13, 2020 at 8:04:18 AM UTC-5, SikoraD wrote: > > Hi Ben, > > I'll highly recommended to read fantastic post on Will Vincent > <https://wsvincent.com/> blog -> > https://wsvincent.com/django-tips-custom-user-model/ > His approach is much easier than one on django website and it is worth to > have look. > > Also his djangox repo on github is very useful. > > Best Regards > Damian > > > Hi. >> >> I read the part where it's "highly recommended" to create a custom user >> model, but I don't see why it's worth the headache. I found these problems: >> >> 1 In the admin panel, my auth groups are in a separate app from my users >> 2 There is some disagreement out there about how apps should refer to a >> user model now that the user model might be custom >> 3 A lot of features that I would add are app specific, and therefore >> would be better handled by app specific profiles >> 4 There's a new entry point for possible errors and glitches >> >> So why do this? >> >> Thanks, >> Ben >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/3210d917-e796-4b26-a316-fc3974bcfc0b%40googlegroups.com.
