I am planning to do email-registration-activation on my site which will be launched very soon. I have just started looking at django-registration and I am open to other email-registration-activation system available on django.
My only requirement is that for my site, I don't actually use usernames. Rather, user logs in with their emails and passwords. I want to get an expert's opinion how to modify django-registration cleanly and safely for this purpose.
If there are easier solutions which are scalable, feel free to post up here.
We used django-registration
with a custom backend, where we overwrote (or defined) the clean
method of the registration form:
def clean(self):
...
# use the email as the username
if 'email' in self.cleaned_data:
self.cleaned_data['username'] = self.cleaned_data['email']
There are other ways:
- http://bitbucket.org/hakanw/django-email-usernames/wiki/Home
- http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/74/
- http://www.davidcramer.net/code/224/logging-in-with-email-addresses-in-django.html
Note that by default, usernames can be only 30 chars long. You'll need a hack for that, too:
- Can django's auth_user.username be varchar(75)? How could that be done?
Since Django 1.5
now it possible to have custom auth.User and make email address as username.