from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model from django.contrib.auth.backends import ModelBackend UserModel = get_user_model() class CaseInsensitiveModelBackend(ModelBackend): def authenticate(self, request, username=None, password=None, **kwargs): if username is None: username = kwargs.get(UserModel.USERNAME_FIELD) if username is None or password is None: return try: user = UserModel._default_manager.get(username__iexact=username) except UserModel.DoesNotExist: UserModel().set_password(password) return if user.check_password(password) and self.user_can_authenticate(user): return user