Django 1.5: UserCreationForm & Custom Auth Model - django

Question

I'm using Django 1.5 & Python 3.2.3.
I've got a custom Auth setup, which uses an email address instead of a username. There's no username defined in the model at all. That works fine. Yet, when I build a user creation form, it adds in a username field anyway. So I tried defining exactly which fields I want displayed, but it's still forcing a username field into the form anyway.... even tho it doesn't even exist in the custom auth model. How can I make it stop doing that?
My form for this is defined like so:
class UserCreateForm(UserCreationForm):
class Meta:
model = MyUsr
fields = ('email','fname','surname','password1','password2',
'activation_code','is_active')
At the docs, the Custom Users and Builtin Forms says it "Must be re-written for any custom user model." and I think that's what I'm doing here. Neither this, nor the UserCreationForm documentation say anything more about this though. So I don't know what I'm missing. I didn't find anything via Google either.

Answer 1

Your UserCreationForm should look something like
# forms.py
from .models import CustomUser
class UserCreationForm(forms.ModelForm):
password1 = forms.CharField(label="Password", widget=forms.PasswordInput)
password2 = forms.CharField(label="Password confirmation", widget=forms.PasswordInput)
class Meta:
model = CustomUserModel
# Note - include all *required* CustomUser fields here,
# but don't need to include password1 and password2 as they are
# already included since they are defined above.
fields = ("email",)
def clean_password2(self):
# Check that the two password entries match
password1 = self.cleaned_data.get("password1")
password2 = self.cleaned_data.get("password2")
if password1 and password2 and password1 != password2:
msg = "Passwords don't match"
raise forms.ValidationError("Password mismatch")
return password2
def save(self, commit=True):
user = super(UserCreationForm, self).save(commit=False)
user.set_password(self.cleaned_data["password1"])
if commit:
user.save()
return user
You'll also want a user change form, which won't overrwrite the password field:
class UserChangeForm(forms.ModelForm):
password = ReadOnlyPasswordHashField()
class Meta:
model = CustomUser
def clean_password(self):
# always return the initial value
return self.initial['password']
Define these in your admin like this:
#admin.py
from .forms import UserChangeForm, UserAddForm
class CustomUserAdmin(UserAdmin):
add_form = UserCreationForm
form = UserChangeForm
You'll also need to override list_display, list_filter, search_fields, ordering, filter_horizontal, fieldsets, and add_fieldsets (everything in django.contrib.auth.admin.UserAdmin that mentions username, I think I listed all of it).

Answer 2

You need to create your form from sctratch, it should not extend the UserCreationForm. The UserCreationForm have a username field explicitly defined in it as well as some other fields. You can look at it here.