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How to add a permissions model to your Django admin? You may add those lines to anywhere in your code. But it is more convinient to add this to your admin.py or place where django admin custom code lies. Here are them: from django.contrib.auth.models import Permission admin.site.register(Permission) Now you can manage them in in your Django admin panel. May look like this: Hope this helps.

I believe you have various situations when you require your syncdb command to be executed without creating a superuser, or prompting anything. Most obvious example is a scripting of some kind. E.g. custom deployment script. For this you have a --noinput option. You can then populate your db from json or someth. Like the one that is made with --dumpdata option. To run your syncdb without propting for creation of a superuser you need to run: python manage . py syncdb --noinput

I have had a task recently. It was about adding a forms/mechanism for resetting a password in our Django based project. We have had our own registration system ongoing... It's a corporate sector project. So you can not go and register yourself. Admins (probably via LDAP sync) will register your email/login in system. So you have to go there and only set yourself a password. For security reasons you can not register. One word. First I've tried to find standart decision. From reviewed by me were: django-registration and django password-reset . These are nice tools to install and give it a go. But I've needed a more complex decision. And the idea was that own bicycle is always better. So I've thought of django admin and that it has all the things you need to do this yourself in no time. (Actually it's django.contrib.auth part of django, but used out of the box in Admin UI) You can find views you need for this in there. they are: password_reset password_reset_...