Django Email as Username
User authentication with email addresses instead of usernames.
Author: Tom Christie, @_tomchristie.
See also: django-email-login, django-email-usernames, django-user-accounts.
Note: As of Django 1.5 onwards you should consider using a custom user model rather than using the django-email-as-username
package. We are no longer accepting pull requests and issues against this package.
A new fork was created to support Django > 1.5 & Python 3 versions and keep old ones functionnal.
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Overview
Allows you to treat users as having only email addresses, instead of usernames.
- Provides an email auth backend and helper functions for creating users.
- Patches the Django admin to handle email based user authentication.
- Overides the
createsuperuser
command to create users with email only. - Treats email authentication as case-insensitive.
- Correctly supports internationalised email addresses.
Requirements
Known to work with Django >= 1.3
Installation
Install from PyPI:
pip install django-email-as-username
Add emailusernames
to INSTALLED_APPS
.
Make sure to include it further down the list than django.contrib.auth
.
INSTALLED_APPS = (
...
'emailusernames',
)
Set EmailAuthBackend
as your authentication backend:
AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
'emailusernames.backends.EmailAuthBackend',
# Uncomment the following to make Django tests pass:
# 'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',
)
Usage
Creating users
You should create users using the create_user
and create_superuser
functions.
from emailusernames.utils import create_user, create_superuser
create_user('[email protected]', 'password')
create_superuser('[email protected]', 'password')
Retrieving users
You can retrieve users, using case-insensitive email matching, with the
get_user
function. Similarly you can use user_exists
to test if a given
user exists.
from emailusernames.utils import get_user, user_exists
user = get_user('[email protected]')
...
if user_exists('[email protected]'):
...
Both functions also take an optional queryset argument if you want to filter the set of users to retrieve.
user = get_user('[email protected]',
queryset=User.objects.filter('profile__deleted=False'))
Updating users
You can update a user's email and save the instance, without having to also modify the username.
user.email = '[email protected]'
user.save()
Note that the user.username
attribute will always return the email address,
but behind the scenes it will be stored as a hashed version of the user's email.
Authenticating users
You should use email
and password
keyword args in calls to authenticate
,
rather than the usual username
and password
.
from django.contrib.auth import authenticate
user = authenticate(email='[email protected]', password='password')
if user:
...
else:
...
User Forms
emailusernames
provides the following forms that you can use for
authenticating, creating and updating users:
emailusernames.forms.EmailAuthenticationForm
emailusernames.forms.EmailAdminAuthenticationForm
emailusernames.forms.EmailUserCreationForm
emailusernames.forms.EmailUserChangeForm
Using Django's built-in login view
If you're using django.contrib.auth.views.login
in your urlconf, you'll want
to make sure you pass through EmailAuthenticationForm
as an argument to
the view.
from emailusernames.forms import EmailAuthenticationForm
urlpatterns = patterns('',
...
url(r'^auth/login$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.login',
{'authentication_form': EmailAuthenticationForm}, name='login'),
...
)
Management commands
emailusernames
will patch up the syncdb
and createsuperuser
managment
commands, to ensure that they take email usernames.
bash: ./manage.py syncdb
...
You just installed Django's auth system, which means you don't have any superusers defined.
Would you like to create one now? (yes/no): yes
E-mail address:
Migrating existing projects
emailusernames
includes a function you can use to easily migrate existing
projects.
The migration will refuse to run if there are any users that it cannot migrate either because they do not have an email set, or because there exists a duplicate email for more than one user.
There are two ways you might choose to run this migration.
Run the update manually
Using manage.py shell
:
bash: python ./manage.py shell
>>> from emailusernames.utils import migrate_usernames
>>> migrate_usernames()
Successfully migrated usernames for all 12 users
Run as a data migration
Using south
, and assuming you have an app named accounts
, this might look
something like:
bash: python ./manage.py datamigration accounts email_usernames
Created 0002_email_usernames.py.
Now edit 0002_email_usernames.py
:
from emailusernames.utils import migrate_usernames
def forwards(self, orm):
"Write your forwards methods here."
migrate_usernames()
And finally apply the migration:
python ./manage.py migrate accounts
Running the tests
If you have cloned the source repo, you can run the tests using the
provided manage.py
:
./manage.py test
Note that this application (unsurprisingly) breaks the existing
django.contrib.auth
tests. If your test suite currently includes those
tests you'll need to find a way to explicitly disable them.
Changelog
1.6.7
- Fix compat with Django 1.6
1.6.6
- Allow users to be created with any explicitly specified primary key if required.
1.6.5
- Liberal
authenticate()
parameters, fixes some 3rd party integrations. - Fix templatetag compatibility with Django 1.5
- Cleanup IntegrityError description for PostgreSQL 9.1
1.6.4
- Fix issue with migrating usernames.
1.6.3
- Fix issue when saving users via admin.
1.6.2
- Fix broken tests.
- Added travis config.
1.6.1
- Fix screwed up packaging.
1.6.0
- Change field ordering in auth forms.
- Fix handling of invalid emails in
createsuperuser
command. EmailAuthBackend
inherits fromModelBackend
, fixing some permissions issues.- Fix
loaddata
andsavedata
fixture commands.
1.5.1
To upgrade from <=1.4.6 you must also run the username migration as described above.
- Fix username hashing bug.
1.5.0
- Version bump, since the username hashes changed from 1.4.6 to 1.4.7. (Bumping to 1.5 should make it more obvious that users should check the changelog before upgrading.)
1.4.8
- Fix syntax error from 1.4.7
1.4.7
- Support for international domain names.
- Fix auto-focus on login forms.
1.4.6
- EmailAuthenticationForm takes request as first argument, same as Django's AuthenticationForm. Now fixed so it won't break if you didn't specify data as a kwarg.
1.4.5
- Email form max lengths should be 75 chars, not 70 chars.
- Use
get_static_prefix
(Supports 1.3 and 1.4.), notadmin_media_prefix
.
1.4.4
- Add 'queryset' argument to
get_user
,user_exists
1.4.3
- Fix support for loading users from fixtures.
(Monkeypatch
User.save_base
, notUser.save
)
1.4.2
- Fix support for Django 1.4
1.4.1
- Fix bug with displaying usernames correctly if migration fails
1.4.0
- Easier migrations, using
migrate_usernames()
1.3.1
- Authentication backend now sets
User.backend
.
1.3.0
- Use hashed username lookups for performance.
- Use Django's email regex validator, rather than providing our own version.
- Tweaks to admin.
- Tweaks to documentation and notes on upgrading.
1.2.0
- Fix import bug in
createsuperuser
managment command.
1.1.0
- Fix bug in EmailAuthenticationForm
1.0.0
- Initial release
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