django-authanon

Allows permissions for an anonymous user and a generic signed-in user to be set as groups.

Installation

pip install django-authanon

Then add to your INSTALLED_APPS:

INSTALLED_APPS += [
    "authanon",
]

Then add to your AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS:

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS += [
    "authanon.backends.AuthanonBackend",
]

Usage

This app creates two groups, one for anonymous users who aren't logged in and one group for users who are logged in. You can add permissions to these groups in the admin console in the 'Groups' section under the 'AUTHENTICATION AND AUTHORIZATION' section.

To display the permissions for these two groups on the command line, use this command.

./manage.py authanon

These groups are automatically created when anonymous users or logged-in users try to access pages. If you find they haven't been created yet, use the ./manage.py authanon command and then the groups will appear in the admin.

Configuration

By default, the two groups are called Anonymous and Login Users. You can change them by variables to the settings with the names AUTHANON_ANONYMOUS_GROUP or AUTHANON_LOGIN_GROUP.

Credits

Package authored by Robert Turnbull (Melbourne Data Analytics Platform)

Inspired by this Stack Overflow answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/31520798 (User: jozxyqk)