Comments on: Django: Using The Permission System

By: Crims0n

Crims0n — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 14:38:55 +0000

Thanks a lot. it was very helpfull

By: Fahad Yousuf

Fahad Yousuf — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:43:17 +0000

I can’t thank you enough. This should be reposted in the official docs or the wiki or at least somewhere closer to the django website. Once again, awesome of you to take the time to write this.

By: Danilo

Danilo — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 22:00:50 +0000

Parand, your approach with using the groups.py file is fantastic. Much better than my approach with using a fixture Thanks.

Jason, see http://bradmontgomery.blogspot.com/2009/04/restricting-access-by-group-in-django.html

By: rasadacrea

rasadacrea — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 06:54:53 +0000

Interesting post on django permissions, very helpfull thank you

By: milad

milad — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:02:00 +0000

how add view permission behind add, delete, edit permissions in django core.
I want to add this permission for all of my models not only for one model. I know class Meta for it but I want using it for all models.

Thanks a lot…

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By: Edgar

Edgar — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 05:41:11 +0000

thank you for guiding the methods of Group/Permission framework

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 05:03:46 +0000

So I have been researching permissions frameworks for some time now and it seems like most if not all of them are based around the idea of permissions being applied to models or specific object instances.

What I am looking for is a way to restrict access to certain pages based on user/group. I have done it currently in a kludgy way by just assigning permissions to a random model in my system but it seems inelegant since the permission to view a specific page does not necessarily have to do with that model or any model in my system.

Maybe I don’t understand the permissions system or how its supposed to be used to restrict access on a per page level. I guess I could also create a new model specifically for per-view permissions but that also seems awkward.

Any advice would be great

By: Parand

Parand — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 20:29:59 +0000

benjamin, my approach is to use get_or_create in a module name groups.py:

premium, _ = Group.objects.get_or_create(name=’account_premium’)

That way I can “import groups” and get access to “groups.premium”.

Not sure if that’s the best way to do it, but it’s worked for me.

By: benjamin

benjamin — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 07:39:02 +0000

The question:
Could you please advise on where to create groups (models.py maybe)?

The website scenario:
I have several levels of groups with each its own special permissions, and I would like to make it persistent like the models. And when I will create new users (I use my own sign up view and template) I will add them to the right group.

Thanks.