Re: override a form field, to allow usernames with '@'

I just implemented this and it's a hassle. There are heated discussions about it. I ended up modifying the auth app and completely eliminating the 'username' field and just using email. Then I modified the admin app to allow the login, and am basically just completely overriding both. Good luck!

Re: override a form field, to allow usernames with '@'

Consider that there may be some third party app which you will want to add in the future, and that it may depend on the existing nature of usernames. (E.g.; uses username as a slug and uses a simple regular expression in a url pattern to capture the username. Consider that usernames are

Re: override a form field, to allow usernames with '@'

Btw, I read about django don't accept @ in usernames, but I can create a User using User.create_user(m...@email.com, m...@email.com, mypassword) The only problem is, I can't save the user at admin site. I was thinking if the limitation is only at forms. I did not test the authentication yet. Any

override a form field, to allow usernames with '@'

Hi, I'm trying to allow usernames that have '@' in them, so they can just be email addresses. Maybe this is a bad idea. ... But putting that aside for a second... The admin user forms don't validate with '@' in usernames, so I thought I'd try this, which I copied from an older post in this