Can't set user.is_active and user.is_admin to True

I need to use email for authentication instead of user but when ever I create super user it doesn't set the is_active and is_admin to True which are False by default!

models.py

class CustomUserManager(BaseUserManager):
    def create_user(self, email, username, password=None):
        if not email:
            raise ValueError('User must have an email')
        if not password:
            raise ValueError("User must have a password")
        user = self.model(
            email = self.normalize_email(email),
            username = username,
        )
        user.set_password(password)
        user.save(using=self._db)
        return user

    def create_superuser(self, email, username, password=None):
        user = self.create_user(email, username, password)
        user.is_active = True
        user.is_staff = True
        user.is_admin = True
        user.is_superuser = True
        user.save(using=self._db)

        return user
    

class User(AbstractUser):
    email = models.EmailField(max_length=200,unique=True)
    username = models.CharField(max_length=200, unique=True)
    last_login = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True)
    created_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
    is_active = models.BooleanField(default=False)
    is_staff = models.BooleanField(default=False)
    is_admin = models.BooleanField(default=False)
    is_superuser = models.BooleanField(default=False)

    USERNAME_FIELD = 'email'
    REQUIRED_FIELDS = ['username']

    def __str__(self):
        return self.email

    objects = CustomUserManager

setting

AUTH_USER_MODEL = "account.User"

SQL table for users

id  ...   is_active is_staff    is_admin    is_superuser
1   ...       0        1           0            1
2   ...       0        1           0            1
3   ...       0        1           0            1
4   ...       0        1           0            1

Solution

You are still using the old manager (the _base_manager), you should set the new manager by creating a manager object:

class User(AbstractUser):
    # …

    objects = CustomUserManager()  # 🖘 use parenthesis

This will then also set User._default_manager to this CustomUserManager object, which is used by the createsuperuser command. Indeed, in the source code ^[GitHub], we see:

self.UserModel._default_manager.db_manager(database).create_superuser(
    **user_data
)