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Mastering Django: Core

By : Nigel George
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Mastering Django: Core

By: Nigel George

Overview of this book

Mastering Django: Core is a completely revised and updated version of the original Django Book, written by Adrian Holovaty and Jacob Kaplan-Moss - the creators of Django. The main goal of this book is to make you a Django expert. By reading this book, you’ll learn the skills needed to develop powerful websites quickly, with code that is clean and easy to maintain. This book is also a programmer’s manual that provides complete coverage of the current Long Term Support (LTS) version of Django. For developers creating applications for commercial and business critical deployments, Mastering Django: Core provides a complete, up-to-date resource for Django 1.8LTS with a stable code-base, security fixes and support out to 2018.
Table of Contents (33 chapters)
Mastering Django: Core
Credits
About the Author
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Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to Django and Getting Started

Users, groups, and permissions


Because you're logged in as a superuser, you have access to create, edit, and delete any object. Naturally, different environments require different permission systems-not everybody can or should be a superuser. Django's admin site uses a permissions system that you can use to give specific users access only to the portions of the interface that they need. These user accounts are meant to be generic enough to be used outside of the admin interface, but we'll just treat them as admin user accounts for now.

In Chapter 11, User Authentication in Django, we'll cover how to manage users site-wide (that is, not just the admin site) with Django's authentication system. You can edit users and permissions through the admin interface just like any other object. We saw this earlier in this chapter, when we played around with the User and Group sections of the admin.

User objects have the standard username, password, e-mail, and real name fields you might expect, along with...