# Update existing django admin to ask for email when creating new user?

**URL:** <https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/update-existing-django-admin-to-ask-for-email-when-creating-new-user/13295>\
**Category:** The Admin\
**Created:** [April 21, 2022, 12:26pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/update-existing-django-admin-to-ask-for-email-when-creating-new-user/13295 "2022-04-21T12:26:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![vancha](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/vancha/32/8221_2.png) [@vancha](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/vancha)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2022, 12:26pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/update-existing-django-admin-to-ask-for-email-when-creating-new-user/13295/1 "2022-04-21T12:26:49Z")

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I saw django.contrib.auth.User, the default user model, already has a field for email.  
When i want to create a new user in Django however, using the django admin panel, all it asks for is a username, password and a password confirmation.  
Is there a way that allows me to make the existing field show up in django’s admin panel? Is there some kind of modeladmin for django’s default user model i can override somewhere?  
At first i tried making an entirely custom user model with a manytomanyfield called emailadres, which was an emailfield. If the existing users email field can be made visible however that would save a lot of work.

I should clarify, that i need this field when creating a new user. Not after 🙂

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**Author:** ![KenWhitesell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/kenwhitesell/32/280_2.png) [@KenWhitesell](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/KenWhitesell)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2022, 2:33pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/update-existing-django-admin-to-ask-for-email-when-creating-new-user/13295/2 "2022-04-21T14:33:36Z")

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You have a couple different options:

- You can unregister the provided ModelAdmin class and register your own.
- You can create a Proxy Model for User and create a ModelAdmin class for it.

In either of these two cases, you could subclass django.auth.admin.UserAdmin and modify those elements you wish to change.

[Edit: You may also wish to do some research to see if you can find out _why_ it was done that way. There is a chance that there’s a very good reason why it’s set up like that. You might want to find out what problems you may create by changing it. I personally don’t know any, but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist.]

Or:

- You can create your own “User creation” form and view and use _it_.

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**Author:** ![vancha](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/vancha/32/8221_2.png) [@vancha](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/vancha)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2022, 1:31pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/update-existing-django-admin-to-ask-for-email-when-creating-new-user/13295/3 "2022-05-09T13:31:29Z")

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I have not been able to get this to work, yet I wanted to thank you for your answer. I will have to learn more and try again