The goal of this article is to discuss the caveats of the default Django user model implementation and also to give you some advice on how to address them. It is important to know the limitations of the current implementation so to avoid the most common pitfalls. Something to keep in mind is that the Django user model is heavily based on its initial implementation that is at least 16 years old. Because user and authentication is a core part of the majority of the web applications using Django...
