django.contrib.auth.forms.UserCreationForm() doesn't call default manager's create_user()

[Ashish Mohite]

While defining custom manager to the User model we usually override two methods create_user and create_superuser but those methods don't get called when you try to create user using django admin. I'm not sure where else create_user method is being used apart from tests in django source.

I want to change the email case while creating the email so i've overridden create_user method but it doesn't work(I know save override would be the alternative to this but wanted to know the reason why create_user isn't be being used while creating user in django admin)

[Carlton Gibson]

Hi.

This is more of a question than a bug report. It might have been better targeted (at least initially) at the django-users or similar.

However...

I don't think there's much we can do here. The long and short is, that's just how model forms work: they instantiate an instance of the model, update attributes on that, and call save(), rather than using manager create() style helpers. (That's not something that's realistically going to change I think.)

You could, in your own project override the default admin and provide an add_form that used your create_user and so on. (No doubt there'd be wiggles.)
That's beyond the scope of help we can provide here I'm afraid.
Good luck. Have fun.