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Difference between AbstractUser and AbstractBaseUser in Django?

The documentation explains this fully. AbstractUser is a full User model, complete with fields, as an abstract class so that you can inherit from it and add your own profile fields and methods. AbstractBaseUser only contains the authentication functionality, but no actual fields: you have to supply them when you subclass.

Extending the User model with custom fields in Django

The least painful and indeed Django-recommended way of doing this is through a OneToOneField(User) property. Extending the existing User model … If you wish to store information related to User, you can use a one-to-one relationship to a model containing the fields for additional information. This one-to-one model is often called a profile model, as … Read more