# Introduction

A regular account is a user account, identified by an email address or username, and protected by a password. The `allauth.account` app is responsible for managing regular accounts. It supports:

- Authentication by username or email.

- Registration of new users, with custom signup form support.

- Email address management: both a simple change email address flow, and more elaborate flows with multiple email addresses (adding secondary, setting a primary) is supported.

- Password forgotten flow.

- Changing of the password.

- Email address verification flow.