Add email to authentication

judge/authentication.py

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+from django.contrib.auth.backends import ModelBackend
+from django.contrib.auth.models import User
+
+
+class CustomModelBackend(ModelBackend):
+    def authenticate(self, request, username=None, password=None, **kwargs):
+        try:
+            # Check if the username is an email
+            user = User.objects.get(username=username)
+        except User.DoesNotExist:
+            # If the username is not an email, try authenticating with the username field
+            user = User.objects.filter(email=username).first()
+
+        if user and user.check_password(password):
+            return user