From d48296eacc4dad0c95cb563889c8bb24c0bb3977 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Harry Marr <harry.marr@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 22:25:26 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added create_user method to Django User model

---
 mongoengine/django/auth.py | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mongoengine/django/auth.py b/mongoengine/django/auth.py
index c9180596..cc88ed0a 100644
--- a/mongoengine/django/auth.py
+++ b/mongoengine/django/auth.py
@@ -52,6 +52,13 @@ class User(Document):
         algo, salt, hash = self.password.split('$')
         return hash == get_hexdigest(algo, salt, raw_password)
 
+    @classmethod
+    def create_user(cls, username, password, email=None):
+        user = User(username=username, email=email)
+        user.set_password(password)
+        user.save()
+        return user
+
 
 class MongoEngineBackend(object):
     """Authenticate using MongoEngine and mongoengine.django.auth.User.