Django 3 Web Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

How to do it...

Follow these steps to overwrite the user and group models:

1. Create models.py in the accounts app with the following content:

# myproject/apps/accounts/models.pyimport uuidfrom django.contrib.auth.base_user import BaseUserManagerfrom django.db import modelsfrom django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractUser, Groupfrom django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _class Role(Group):    class Meta:        proxy = True        verbose_name = _("Role")        verbose_name_plural = _("Roles")    def __str__(self):        return self.nameclass UserManager(BaseUserManager):    def create_user(self, username="", email="", password="",      **extra_fields):        if not email:            raise ValueError("Enter an email address")        email = self.normalize_email(email)        user = self.model(