Re: django.contrib.auth and username's field size

Hi Ivan, and welcome. Django >= 1.5 features custom User models, which I believe would solve your problem: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/customizing/#specifying-a-custom-user-model

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Ivan Voras <ivoras@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

I'm new to Django, and still finding out how it all fits together. I've seen django.contrib.auth and I'm wondering - is it a common practice to actually use it as a basis for application authentication?

If so, I have a question: the username field as defined (30 characters) is too short for me. Is there an easy way to override the default field size?

What I'm actually trying to do is this: I'm thinking of using e-mail addresses for user names, with the "username" field holding a lowercase address (to make use of the unique index) and the "email" field will store the address as entered by the user. The default length of the "email" field is good enough (75) but the "username" field is too short.

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