Can't login to django admin after successfully creating a super user with a custom user model

Question

imm trying to login to the django admin panel with a successfully created superuser but cannot get the right username/pw combo right.

I want users to just use their email as their username. I've deleted migrations, sycndb, and everything works except logging in to the admin panel.

models.py

from django.db import models
from django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractBaseUser, BaseUserManager


class MyAccountManager(BaseUserManager):
    def create_user(self, email, username, password= None):
        if not email:
            raise ValueError('email required')
        if not username:
            raise ValueError('username required')

        user = self.model(
            email= self.normalize_email(email),
            username= username,
        )
        user.set_password(password)
        user.save(using= self._db)
        return user

    def create_superuser(self, email, username, password):
        user = self.create_user(
            email= self.normalize_email(email),
            password= password,
            username= username,
        )
        user.is_admin= True
        user.staff= True
        user.is_superuser= True
        user.save(using= self._db)
        return user


class Accounts(AbstractBaseUser):
    email                   = models.EmailField(verbose_name= 'email', max_length= 60, unique= True)
    username                = models.CharField(max_length= 30, unique= True)
    date_joined             = models.DateTimeField(verbose_name= 'date joined', auto_now_add= True)
    last_login              = models.DateTimeField(verbose_name= 'last login', auto_now= True)
    is_admin                = models.BooleanField(default= False)
    is_active               = models.BooleanField(default= True)
    is_staff                = models.BooleanField(default= False)
    is_superuser            = models.BooleanField(default= False)

    USERNAME_FIELD = 'email'
    REQUIRED_FIELDS = ['username']

    objects = MyAccountManager()

    def __str__(self):
        return self.email

    def has_perm(self, perm, obj= None):
        return self.is_admin

    def has_module_perm(self, app_label):
        return True

admin.py

from django.contrib import admin
from .models import Accounts

admin.site.register(Accounts)

settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'rest_framework',
    'rest_framework.authtoken',
    'articles',
    'accounts',
]

MIDDLEWARE = [
    'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
]

REST_FRAMEWORK = {
    'DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES': [
        'rest_framework.authentication.TokenAuthentication',
    ]
}

AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'accounts.Accounts'


ROOT_URLCONF = 'restApi.urls'

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [],
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                'django.template.context_processors.request',
                'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
            ],
        },
    },
]

I think it must be something to do with the way the password is being saved and returned, because no matter what I do I get the "Please enter the correct email and password for a staff account. Note that both fields may be case-sensitive." message.

imm using mongodb database.

Answer 1

You're setting user.staff= True in MyAccountManager.create_superuser(), but it should be user.is_staff = True (you're missing is_).

Answer 2

You will find an answer that might help you in here: How to Allow Superusers to access Django Admin Panels

If you still cannot log in, run python manage.py createsuperuser and create a new superuser and try to log in with that one

Answer 3

I think you should add this in your createsuperuser method before saving your data to the database:

is_admin = True

and

is_superuser = True

. And that should fix the problem