Customizing Django Auth: Custom User Model

2021, Jul 31    

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Common Problems

django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: AUTH_USER_MODEL refers to model ‘myapp.MyUserModel’ that has not been installed

After writing your custom user model and specifying it in django settings, you run makemigrations and whoa! It fails!

• Probable reason is you didn’t specify your custom user model in admin.py
• You may have specified abstract = True in your custom user model Meta class. Remove it, so that it should look like:

  class Meta:
   verbose_name = _('user')
   verbose_name_plural = _('users')
   # abstract = True remove this line if exists
  

  Check the django auth doc: custom user model, a full example