MyUser login in Django 1.5. Again - django

Question

I try to login users from MyUser model in django 1.5. I use e-mail as login, see model:
class MyUser(AbstractBaseUser):
email = models.EmailField(
verbose_name='email address',
max_length=255,
unique=True,
db_index=True,
)
last_name=models.CharField(max_length=30)
first_name=models.CharField(max_length=30)
second_name=models.CharField(max_length=30, blank=True)
post=models.CharField(max_length=30, blank=True)
objects = MyUserManager()
USERNAME_FIELD = 'email'
REQUIRED_FIELDS = ['last_name','first_name','second_name','post',]
def get_full_name(self):
return self.email
def get_short_name(self):
return self.email
def __unicode__(self):
return self.email
def has_perm(self, perm, obj=None):
return True
def has_module_perms(self, app_label):
return True
#property
def is_staff(self):
return self.is_admin
And I added LoginForm:
class LoginForm(forms.Form):
username = forms.CharField(max_length=100)
password =forms.CharField(widget=forms.PasswordInput(render_value=False),max_length=100)
view:
def login_view(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
username = request.POST['email']
password = request.POST['password']
user = authenticate(username=username, password=password)
if user is not None and user.is_active:
login(request, user)
return HttpResponseRedirect("/home.html")# Redirect to a success page.
return HttpResponseRedirect("/account/invalid/")# Return a 'disabled account' error message
form=LoginForm()
return render(request, 'enter.html', {'login_form': LoginForm})
template:
{% if form.errors %}
<p>Something is wrong</p>
{% endif %}
<form action="" method="post">
{% csrf_token %}
<label for="email">Login:</label>
<input type="text" name="email" value="" id="email"/>
<label for="password">Password:</label>
<input type="password" name="password" value="" id="username">
<input type="submit" value="login" />
<input type="hidden" name="next" value="{{next|escape}}" />
</form>
urls:
(r'^login/$', login_view),
Problem: It works for users from default User model (username, password), but this form "doesn't know" users from MyUser model (email, password), it redirect them to /account/invalid page.
What am I doing wrong?
Thx!

Answer 1

You need to indicate your custom user model in settings:
AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'myapp.MyUser'
Also, you have to provide custom UserManager, from doc:
You should also define a custom manager for your User model. If your
User model defines username and email fields the same as Django’s
default User, you can just install Django’s UserManager; however, if
your User model defines different fields, you will need to define a
custom manager that extends BaseUserManager providing two additional
methods: