Building user authentication is not easy, in almost case, it’s complicated. Fortunately, Django has a powerful built-in User authentication that helps us create our Authentication system fast. By default, the User model in Django auth app contains fields: username, password, email, first_name, last_name… However, using our own custom user model allows us deal with user profile more comfortably. For example, what if we want to add more fields: full_name or age?
In this tutorial, we’re gonna look at way to customize authentication in Django (version 2.1) using subclass of AbstractBaseUser: AbstractUser. All User authentication data will be stored in MySQL/PostgreSQL database that we’ll show you how to config the datasource.
It will be very interesting. Let’s go through the steps.
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