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We recently did this, and it's not that big of a deal. In our case, a 30-line sql script did the job (mostly related to renaming fk fields in other tables, and re-creating indexes and constraints). More than happy to share, although it's very specific to our app of course.

I'd be really interested to hear about the actual migration. That's what I thought this article was going to be about, instead of just how to use the feature.

We just went through this... renaming the table is easy via south. The worst part is either ditching your historic south migrations, or rewriting them to be myusers_user, since auth_user (in our case, and typically) wasn't south-managed, so it can't be 'unmanaged'.

Remember to check you can recreate an bare database, or you'll be in for nasty surprises sometime later :)

I'm going to have a blog post going through how to migrate sometime next week. You should subscribe ;)

PS I'm the author of this post.