django-acl 0.1.3

ACL (Action Control List) permission handling.

Django has a built in permissions system, but all the permissions are more directly related to models. This is meant to extend that system by adding permissions, or actions, not related specifically to models.

This also adds an ACL aspect to Django-CMS as an optional

Documentation

Add to INSTALLED APPS

Add the module to your installed apps.

INSTALLED_APS = (
    ...
    'djangoacl'
)

Template Loader

Add the new authentication backend to AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS in settings.py

TEMPLATE_LOADERS = (
    'skin.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
    'skin.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader',
    'django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
    'django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader',
)

Run migrations

$ python manage.py migrate djangoacl

Add the action

Go to http://yoursite/admin/djangoacl/action/add/ and add the action.

Give the action a name. This can be pretty much anything you want but recommend no spaces or special characters. Also probably best not to use anything that matches then normal permission patters such as <action>_<model> or <model>.<action>

Make sure to add any related users or groups.

Request Permission

Request permission in the normal way using the permission_required decorator. See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/topics/auth/default/#the-permission-required-decorator