Django Abstract User Error

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byrdr picture byrdr · Nov 2, 2014 · Viewed 19.2k times · Source

I am working on extending the User class based on the docs with the code below:

from django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractUser

class MyUser(AbstractUser):
  some_extra_data = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True)

However, I'm returning the following error

Reverse accessor for 'User.groups' clashes with reverse accessor for 'MyUser.groups'.
HINT: Add or change a related_name argument to the definition for 'User.groups' or 'MyUser.groups'.

I understand resolving this type of conflict by adding a related_name to FK. How would I resolve it in this scenario?

Answer

Daniel Roseman picture Daniel Roseman · Nov 2, 2014

You need to set your AUTH_USER_MODEL setting to point to your MyUser model, so that Django knows not to initialise the default model. See the documentation.

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