django.contrib.auth.views.login redirects you to accounts/profile/ right after you log in. You may want to set LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL inside your settings.py file to anything you like..
from django.shortcuts import redirect from django.conf import settings class LoginRequiredMiddleware: def __init__(self, get_response): self.get_response = get_response self.login_url = settings.LOGIN_URL self.open_urls = [self.login_url] + \ getattr(settings, ‘OPEN_URLS’, []) def __call__(self, request): if not request.user.is_authenticated \ and not request.path_info in self.open_urls: return redirect(self.login_url+’?next=”+request.path) return self.get_response(request)
Yet another solution: from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model from django.contrib.auth.backends import ModelBackend from django.db.models import Q class EmailOrUsernameModelBackend(ModelBackend): “”” Authentication backend which allows users to authenticate using either their username or email address Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/35836674/59984 “”” def authenticate(self, request, username=None, password=None, **kwargs): # n.b. Django <2.1 does not pass the `request` user_model = get_user_model() if username … Read more
You should write a custom authentication backend. Something like this will work: from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model from django.contrib.auth.backends import ModelBackend class EmailBackend(ModelBackend): def authenticate(self, request, username=None, password=None, **kwargs): UserModel = get_user_model() try: user = UserModel.objects.get(email=username) except UserModel.DoesNotExist: return None else: if user.check_password(password): return user return None Then, set that backend as your auth backend in … Read more