Issues sorting authtokens in django admin

[FeralRobot]

I want to be able to sort authtokens alphabetically by username in the django admin

I am using django 3.2.13, django restframework 3.13.1, and I am using a custom user model based on AbstractUser. The custom user model has no modifications at this moment.

This code, placed in the admin.py for the custom user app, allows me to get the alphabetic sort I want initially. There are two issues though. The first is that the search_fields line is required if I want the alphabetic sort. The second issue occurs when I click on the User column header (see green arrows). My expectation is clicking there would toggle back and forth between ascending and descending alphabetic order.
Instead the sort order changes to something that looks like user_id or created by order, and I lose the alphabetic order.

I can recover the alphabetic order by returning to the admin homepage and re-entering the tokens view.

These behaviors look like bugs to me, and I would like to report them as a Github issue in the DRF repo. That repo refers me here first for discussion

from rest_framework.authtoken.models import TokenProxy
from rest_framework.authtoken.admin import TokenAdmin

class CustomTokenAdmin(TokenAdmin):
    list_display = ('user', 'key', 'created')
    search_fields = ['user__email','user__username']
    ordering = ('user__username',)   

admin.site.unregister(TokenProxy)
admin.site.register(TokenProxy, CustomTokenAdmin)

[auvipy]

I think this answer shows that the issue you reported can not be reproduced #8830 (comment)