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11406	Admin broken for subclasses of User	Jim Garrison	nobody	"I have a model called {{{Teacher}}}, which inherits from {{{django.contrib.auth.models.User}}}.

Here's the story: the ""Add Teacher"" form in the admin uses the form typically used for editing a user, so you have to type in a fake password string for it to accept the new {{{Teacher}}}.  Further, the link to the ""change password form"" is broken.

Nothing I have said so far is new, however, as this is the subject of ticket #9656.  This ticket was closed, saying that the person ought to be subclassing from {{{django.contrib.auth.admin.UserAdmin}}} anyway.

I am filing this ticket because such subclassing from {{{UserAdmin}}} creates additional problems that are even worse than the above issues.  In particular,

 * If you submit the ""Add Teacher"" form, a {{{User}}} is created, but a corresponding {{{Teacher}}} is not.
 * After editing a {{{Teacher}}}, it redirects to the edit page for ""teacher/[id]/"", except it uses the id from the {{{User}}} table, not the {{{Teacher}}} table.  I have only been able to reproduce this using MySQL; sqlite does not give me this error.

In short, deriving from {{{UserAdmin}}} currently creates more problems than it solves.  "		closed	contrib.admin	1.0		duplicate			Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	0	0