Using email as primary key for users

[pupeno@…]

Not being able to smoothly use email as primary key for users, instead of username, is the biggest (and single) showstopper to adopting Django I have. I am not sure what the solution would be, but I think you should be aware of the problem.

Thank you.

[Ramiro Morales]

See #3011

[Matt McClanahan]

Also see a trivial workaround: ​http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/74/

[James Bennett]

You're not required to use the supplied User model, and there's no conceivable way that it could support every possible scheme of requirements someone could want. If you want to use Django's auth system with other requirements the preferred method is to write an auth backend as covered in the documentation.