django custom user model password is not being hashed

It looks like you created a user in a way that does not use your manager's create_user method, for example through the Django admin.

If you create a custom user, you need to define a custom model form and model admin that handles the password properly.

Otherwise, passwords will not hashed when a user is created through the Django admin.

The example in docs for creating a custom users shows how to create the model form and model admin.

I know it's too late now, but I'll just post this for future reference.If you're creating a new user by calling the save function on its serializer, you'll need to override the create function of the serializer as shown below, (which is pretty obvious, but I got stuck on it for a little bit....)

class SignUpView(views.APIView):    authentication_classes = ()    permission_classes = (permissions.AllowAny,)    def post(self, request, format=None):        serializer = UserSerializer(data=request.data)        serializer.is_valid(raise_exception=True)        serializer.save()        return Response(serializer.data, status=status.HTTP_201_CREATED)

class UserSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):    password = serializers.CharField(        min_length=6, write_only=True, required=True)    class Meta:        model = User        fields = (            'id', 'email', 'password', 'is_staff',            'is_active', 'date_joined')    def create(self, validated_data):        return User.objects.create_user(**validated_data)

Late answer but anyway, you need to make Custom User Model form too with explicit hashing.Else just make form inheriting UserCreationForm like:

from .models import MyUserfrom django.contrib.auth.forms import UserCreationForm    class UserForm(UserCreationForm):    class Meta:        model = User        fields = ['email']