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logeeks
logeeks

Reputation: 4977

Auth_User v/s User table in Django

I am learning Django, and i am following the Django tutorials in the djangoproject website. I wanted to use the Django Auth. In the tutorial I saw a reference to a User table which will get created automatically during the 'migrate' if I have all the needed settings. I made sure all the settings are inside the settings.py file and ran migrate. I saw that instead of User table, it is Auth_User got created inside the database. I want to hash the password before storing it in the database, for that I tried using set_password function, which is not available with the Auth_User.

Can any one please tell me the difference between Auth_User and User

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2497

Answers (2)

Kermit
Kermit

Reputation: 5992

I think your confusion is coming from the fact that User is a class of the auth app.

As seen in the Django documentation, the app name is prepended to the start of the table name:

For example, if you have an app bookstore (as created by manage.py startapp bookstore), a model defined as class Book will have a database table named bookstore_book

Upvotes: 0

Daniel Roseman
Daniel Roseman

Reputation: 599630

Methods are defined on the model class, not on the database table. The User class creates a table called "auth_user", because it is inside the auth app. And the set_password method is available on that model.

Upvotes: 3

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