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| author | Tim Graham <timograham@gmail.com> | 2012-07-30 16:16:11 -0400 |
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| committer | Tim Graham <timograham@gmail.com> | 2012-07-30 18:12:40 -0400 |
| commit | fa6577f5b2af9848b661fc24719b59e07d214728 (patch) | |
| tree | f5acebeb1e2e32d1d4a93c20a9b1a47b27a461bb /docs/topics | |
| parent | 28a4d039a2725ad51d23b92aa89e5b59e98e4a9b (diff) | |
Fixed #17131 - Added per object permission notes to docs.
Thanks dchandek for the suggestion and mateusgondim for the patch.
Backport of 8d3e501502c308cbdd3cc95b62ace0fe11d373ab from master
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/topics')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/topics/auth.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/docs/topics/auth.txt b/docs/topics/auth.txt index 4b0b0fc8a4..534297279a 100644 --- a/docs/topics/auth.txt +++ b/docs/topics/auth.txt @@ -1508,12 +1508,13 @@ The Django admin site uses permissions as follows: * Access to delete an object is limited to users with the "delete" permission for that type of object. -Permissions are set globally per type of object, not per specific object -instance. For example, it's possible to say "Mary may change news stories," but -it's not currently possible to say "Mary may change news stories, but only the -ones she created herself" or "Mary may only change news stories that have a -certain status, publication date or ID." The latter functionality is something -Django developers are currently discussing. +Permissions can be set not only per type of object, but also per specific +object instance. By using the +:meth:`~django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.has_add_permission`, +:meth:`~django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.has_change_permission` and +:meth:`~django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.has_delete_permission` methods provided +by the :class:`~django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin` class, it is possible to +customize permissions for different object instances of the same type. Default permissions ------------------- |