Commit 35695364 authored by Tim Graham's avatar Tim Graham
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Fixed #23314 -- Tempered recommendation of storing profile data on custom user.

Thanks gavinwahl for the report.
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@@ -453,6 +453,8 @@ different User model.
    :setting:`AUTH_USER_MODEL` setting in code that is executed at import
    time. ``get_user_model()`` only works once Django has imported all models.

.. _specifying-custom-user-model:

Specifying a custom User model
------------------------------

@@ -706,10 +708,12 @@ Extending Django's default User
-------------------------------

If you're entirely happy with Django's :class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User`
model and you just want to add some additional profile information, you can
model and you just want to add some additional profile information, you could
simply subclass ``django.contrib.auth.models.AbstractUser`` and add your
custom profile fields. This class provides the full implementation of the
default :class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User` as an :ref:`abstract model
custom profile fields, although we'd recommend a separate model as described in
the "Model design considerations" note of :ref:`specifying-custom-user-model`.
``AbstractUser`` provides the full implementation of the default
:class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User` as an :ref:`abstract model
<abstract-base-classes>`.

.. _custom-users-and-the-built-in-auth-forms: