Django 1.7 data migration for custom user model

Question

I have created a custom user model for my project. I have written a data migration file to copy contents of auth.User to my new custom user table. It doesn\'t seem to work p

Answer 1

I solved this issue using below workaround,

from __future__ import unicode_literals

from django.db import models, migrations


class Migration(migrations.Migration):

    dependencies = [
         ('custom_auth', '0001_initial'),
    ]

    operations = [
        migrations.RunSQL('INSERT INTO custom_auth_user SELECT * FROM auth_user'),
        migrations.RunSQL('INSERT INTO custom_auth_user_groups SELECT * FROM auth_user_groups'),
        migrations.RunSQL('INSERT INTO custom_auth_user_user_permissions SELECT * FROM auth_user_user_permissions'),
    ]

Answer 2

You should set AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'auth.User' in settings.py before run this migrate and after this migrate finishes, update the settings.py to AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'custom_auth.User'