id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,stage,has_patch,needs_docs,needs_tests,needs_better_patch,easy,ui_ux 30012,Ability to specify a custom AnonymousUser,Sanket Saurav,nobody,"Currently, it isn't possible to tell Django auth to use a custom AnonymousUser. https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/contrib/auth/__init__.py#L179 There is a case in favour of the need for this: if an application uses a custom user model, there can be additional properties and methods added to it, and it makes sense for the AnonymousUser to be able to mirror those properties (even if they are falsey). For the sake of coherence, I believe it makes sense to have the ability to specify a custom AnonymousUser class, just as the AbstractUser.",New feature,closed,contrib.auth,dev,Normal,duplicate,,,Accepted,0,0,0,0,0,0