ACL (Action Control List) permission handling.
Project description
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
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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
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