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Don't assume USERNAME_FIELD == 'user' in UserAdmin. #427

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Never assume that a user object has a field named username, use
USERNAME_FIELD instead.

fixes https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/19077

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Don't assume USERNAME_FIELD == 'user' in UserAdmin.
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Never assume that a user object has a field named `username`, use
`USERNAME_FIELD` instead.

fixes #19077
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ptone commented Oct 7, 2012

as clarified in https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/19077#comment:6 - the default ModelAdmin will not easily work with custom user models that don't largely conform to auth.User, and the solution is likely to subclass UserAdmin

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