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fangsterr
fangsterr

Reputation: 3820

How to get 'change password' functionality with Custom User Model in Django 1.5

In a Django 1.5 project, I've created a custom User model extending from AbstractBaseUser to make the email address the primary key (instead of a username).

How do I get the change password functionality for UserAdmin in the django admin interface? I tried extending UserAdmin with a class called CustomUserAdmin (much like the answer suggested in Using custom User admin breaks change password form in Django's admin), but I get the following error message

CustomUserAdmin.list_display[0], 'username' is not a callable or an attribute of 'CustomUserAdmin' or found in the model 'User'.

I basically want the default admin interface except the password field (which I want from UserAdmin).

How do I do this?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 975

Answers (1)

Sudipta
Sudipta

Reputation: 4961

Looks like your custom User model doesn't have 'username' field. And since CustomUserAdmin is extending UserAdmin, which assumes 'username' field is present; we are getting this error.

I would suggest you add a 'username' field in your custom model and store the same value of 'email' field in it.

Or override all the attributes of UserAdmin class which uses 'username'. Eg:

class CustomUserAdmin(UserAdmin):
    list_display = ['email', 'first_name'.....]

Upvotes: 0

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