How to override default user model field in Django?

Question

The problem is the default User model does not have some very useful options given to the fields e.g unique=True to the email field.

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Answer 1

There's this already asked... How to make email field unique in model User from contrib.auth in Django

Also the django method of additional user data is here http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/#auth-profiles .

I'm not entirely a fan of this method and appreciate where you are coming from, but sometimes you have to go with the herd.