Custom User

By default, a Custom User employs django-allauth.

The Custom User comes with custom user types.

The CustomUser types have Admin panel filters and are sortable in the Users view.

All Django Admin security and features remain intact.

Options Before Initial Migration

CustomUser types can be left as is, or if you wish to change the user types to meet your needs, change the values in Users/models.py

Customise these user types.

class CustomUser(AbstractUser):

    class CustomUserType(models.TextChoices):
        """Custom user type choices"""

        # Change these to suit your needs before initial migration.
        FREE = "FREE", _("Free")
        LEVEL_1 = "LEVEL 1", _("Level 1")
        LEVEL_2 = "LEVEL 2", _("Level 2")
        STAFF = "STAFF", _("Staff")
        SUPERUSER = "SUPERUSER", _("Superuser")

Accessing Admin Panel

Additional security with your Custom User comes by default.

You can only access your new Django project Admin after a successful login.

Placing the Admin panel behind the django-allauth login gives Admin all the protections of django-allauth.

If this behaviour does not suit your workflow, you can disable this feature by commenting out the line admin.site.login.

Users/admin.py

# Require login before Admin panel is available.  Removes the opportunity for
# a brute force attack on Admin Login. Provided by django-allauth.
# https://django-allauth.readthedocs.io/en/latest/advanced.html
# Comment the following line to disable django-allauth protection
admin.site.login = login_required(admin.site.login)

Adding a New User

When creating a new user with the django-allauth Sign-up form, the Custom User model is used, and the new user will be required to confirm their email address.

Note

Adding a new user via the Admin panel

After a new user is added with an email address, they will be prompted to confirm their email address upon their first sign-in.

django-allauth provides this functionality.