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Django – Login with Email

June 14, 2022 by Tarik

You should write a custom authentication backend. Something like this will work: from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model from django.contrib.auth.backends import ModelBackend class EmailBackend(ModelBackend): def authenticate(self, request, username=None, password=None, **kwargs): UserModel = get_user_model() try: user = UserModel.objects.get(email=username) except UserModel.DoesNotExist: return None else: if user.check_password(password): return user return None Then, set that backend as your auth backend in … Read more

Having Django serve downloadable files

May 5, 2022 by Tarik

For the “best of both worlds” you could combine S.Lott’s solution with the xsendfile module: django generates the path to the file (or the file itself), but the actual file serving is handled by Apache/Lighttpd. Once you’ve set up mod_xsendfile, integrating with your view takes a few lines of code: from django.utils.encoding import smart_str response … Read more

Extending the User model with custom fields in Django

April 29, 2022 by Tarik

The least painful and indeed Django-recommended way of doing this is through a OneToOneField(User) property. Extending the existing User model … If you wish to store information related to User, you can use a one-to-one relationship to a model containing the fields for additional information. This one-to-one model is often called a profile model, as … Read more