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Mastering Django: Core

Mastering Django: Core

By : Nigel George
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Mastering Django: Core

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.
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1. Introduction to Django and Getting Started

Managing users in the admin


When you have both Django.contrib.admin and Django.contrib.auth installed, the admin provides a convenient way to view and manage users, groups, and permissions. Users can be created and deleted like any Django model. Groups can be created, and permissions can be assigned to users or groups. A log of user edits to models made within the admin is also stored and displayed.

Creating users

You should see a link to Users in the Auth section of the main admin index page. If you click this link, you should see the user management screen (Figure 11.1).

Figure 11.1: Django admin user management screen

The Add user admin page is different than standard admin pages in that it requires you to choose a username and password before allowing you to edit the rest of the user's fields (Figure 11.2).

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If you want a user account to be able to create users using the Django admin site, you'll need to give them permission to add users and change users (that is, the Add user and Change...

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