Django rest auth email instead of username

Question

I have a django project in which I am using Django-rest-auth to do authentication. I want to use email with password to authenticate the user and not the username+password.

I have following settings in my settings.py but it didn't do anything for me:

REST_SESSION_LOGIN = True
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend'
ACCOUNT_EMAIL_REQUIRED = True
ACCOUNT_AUTHENTICATION_METHOD = 'EMAIL'
ACCOUNT_EMAIL_VERIFICATION = 'optional'

How can I achieve it?

Answer 1

I'm using this package too, and by call this config it worked for me:

ACCOUNT_AUTHENTICATION_METHOD = 'email'

Be careful about this config, this config belongs to django-allauth, see this:

class AuthenticationMethod:
    USERNAME = 'username'
    EMAIL = 'email'
    USERNAME_EMAIL = 'username_email'

Above class is a settings which is in allauth, so you write 'EMAIL' in lower case.

I hope it helps

Answer 2

Following setting worked:

#This is required otherwise it asks for email server
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend'
# ACCOUNT_EMAIL_REQUIRED = True
# AUTHENTICATION_METHOD = 'EMAIL'
# ACCOUNT_EMAIL_VERIFICATION = 'optional'

ACCOUNT_AUTHENTICATION_METHOD = 'email'
ACCOUNT_EMAIL_REQUIRED = True   
ACCOUNT_USERNAME_REQUIRED = False

#Following is added to enable registration with email instead of username
AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
 # Needed to login by username in Django admin, regardless of `allauth`
 "django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend",

 # `allauth` specific authentication methods, such as login by e-mail
 "allauth.account.auth_backends.AuthenticationBackend",
)