Django Custom User Admin Panel won't log in - django

Question

I just started a new Django project and I wanted to create my own customer user model instead of using the default. I pretty much followed the one in the documentation for 2.1 (my version of Django) except I added more fields and date_of_birth is called 'dob' and isn't required. But then when I create the superuser account, I can't log into the admin panel. It says, "Please enter the correct email address and password for a staff account. Note that both fields may be case-sensitive."
Here is my code:
users/models.py
from django.db import models
from django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractBaseUser, BaseUserManager
from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
# Create your models here.
class UserManager(BaseUserManager):
# python manage.py createuser
def create_user(self, email: str, password: str=None) -> 'User':
if not email:
raise ValueError('Users must have a valid email address.')
user = self.model(
email=self.normalize_email(email),
)
user.set_password(password)
user.save(using=self._db)
return user
# python manage.py createsuperuser
def create_superuser(self, email, password) -> 'User':
user = self.create_user(
email=email,
password=password,
)
user.is_admin = True
user.save(using=self._db)
return user
class User(AbstractBaseUser):
email = models.EmailField(
_('email address'), help_text=_('An email address'), max_length=127, unique=True, null=False, blank=False
)
is_admin = models.BooleanField(default=False)
is_active = models.BooleanField(default=False)
first_name = models.CharField(_('first name'), help_text=_('The user\'s given name'), blank=False, max_length=32)
last_name = models.CharField(
_('last name'), help_text=_('The user\'s surname or family name'), blank=False, max_length=32
)
dob = models.DateField(_('date of birth'), help_text=_('User\'s date of birth'), blank=False, null=True)
hometown = models.CharField(_('hometown'), help_text=_('Hometown'), blank=True, max_length=64)
country = models.CharField(_('country'), help_text=_('Country'), blank=True, max_length=64)
objects = UserManager()
USERNAME_FIELD = "email"
REQUIRED_FIELDS = []
def __str__(self):
return self.email
def get_full_name(self):
return self.first_name + " " + self.last_name
def get_short_name(self):
return self.first_name
def has_perm(self, perm, obj=None):
return self.is_staff
def has_module_perms(self, app_label):
return self.is_staff
#property
def is_staff(self) -> bool:
"""
Is the user a member of staff?
:return: If the user is an admin, then True. Else False
"""
return self.is_admin
I also changed my settings.py file to read:
AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'users.User'
and I made sure the app ('myproject.users.apps.UsersConfig') is added to the INSTALLED_APPS list. Note: my apps are all located one folder in, unlike the tutorial default. Ie:
myproject/
|-----> users/
|----->models.py

Answer 1

I think you missed one thing in User model,
Change is_active = models.BooleanField(default=False) to is_active = models.BooleanField(default=True)
Hence your model be like,
class User(AbstractBaseUser):
is_active = models.BooleanField(default=True)
# other fields
From the official doc,
is_active
Boolean. Designates whether this user account should be considered
active. We recommend that you set this flag to False instead of
deleting accounts; that way, if your applications have any foreign
keys to users, the foreign keys won’t break.