I'm using django_auth_ldap.backend.LDAPBackend to authenticate users against a LDAP directory and copy some attributes from LDAP (cn, sn, email, etc). However, some LDAP fields have larger values than the django.auth.models.User model supports.
How can I instruct Django to use bigger max_length values for the User model?
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I already found the solution. I've put the following lines in models.py of my application, before doing the first syncdb:
Hack django.contrib.auth.User
User._meta.get_field_by_name('username')[0].max_length = 128 User._meta.get_field_by_name('first_name')[0].max_length = 128 User._meta.get_field_by_name('last_name')[0].max_length = 128 User._meta.get_field_by_name('email')[0].max_length = 128