# Extending Django's default User Model

If you're starting a brand new Django project and want to modify the user model, try this - this is tricky in the sense that it has the been done step-by-step without intervention in-between.

In this case, we're adding a `role` and date-of-birth (`dob`) to the user model which will be changed to `application_user` instead of the default `auth_user` in the database's table name.

`cd ~/Desktop/`

`mkdir user-roles`

`cd user-roles`

`python3 -m venv env`

`source env/bin/activate`

`python -m pip install --upgrade pip`

`pip install django`

`django-admin startproject myPersonalProject`

`cd myPersonalProject`

`python manage.py startup application`

```bash
echo "
INSTALLED_APPS.append('application',)
AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'application.User'
" >> myPersonalProject/settings.py

echo "
from django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractUser
# from django.contrib.auth.models import Group

class User(AbstractUser):
    SUPERADMIN = 0
    ADMIN = 1
    SALES = 2
    MANAGER = 3

    ROLE_CHOICES = (
      (SUPERADMIN, 'Super Admin'),
      (ADMIN, 'Admin'),
      (SALES, 'Sales'),
      (MANAGER, 'Manager'),
    )
    role = models.PositiveSmallIntegerField(choices=ROLE_CHOICES, blank=True, null=True)
    dob = models.DateField(blank=True, null=True)

# hospital_group, created = Group.objects.get_or_create(name='Hospital')
# clinic_group, created = Group.objects.get_or_create(name='Clinic')
# pharmacy_group, created = Group.objects.get_or_create(name='Pharmacy')
" >> application/models.py

echo "
from .models import User
admin.site.register([User])
" >> application/admin.py
```

`python manage.py makemigrations`

`python manage.py migrate`

`code application/models.py`

Uncomment those `#`s from application/models.py above because groups are created post table creations.

`python manage.py migrate`

`python manage.py createsuperuser`

`python manage.py runserver`

Goto : [http://localhost:8000/admin/](http://localhost:8000/admin/)

When you try to add a user at [http://localhost:8000/admin/application/user/add/](http://localhost:8000/admin/application/user/add/) you'll see the following as additional :

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1678168122560/f8fccc53-6847-4bf3-9636-2f4c36b83066.png align="center")

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1678168154711/3c970258-61e7-4c5f-b2fe-503330970962.png align="center")