I'm not advanced in Django and would like to know how and if it's possible to do it.

I need to override Django's user model, and change the fields "username" to "sr_usuario" and "password" to "sr_password", but I would like to continue using all Django's default authentication scheme and permissions. I want not only to change the description in the database or a label, I want to change the name of the field in the model, for when for example I needed to make a query, I would use User.objects.filter(sr_usuario="user_name") and everything would work usually.

It's possible? I couldn't find anything in the documentation or on forums I've searched.

Thank you very much in advance!

CodePudding user response：

Yes, if you want to override the User Model you need to add to your settings:

AUTH_USER_MODEL = "<THE PATH OF THE USER MODEL>"

And in that model extend it using the AbstractUser

Django Documentation here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/topics/auth/customizing/#using-a-custom-user-model-when-starting-a-project

CodePudding user response：

This is not possible, as all the django code is strictly coupled to the fields in the user.

You can, however, create a custom authentication backend and use a custom user model with the field names mentioned. But this would require a lot of coding.