Django - user permissions to certain views?

Question

From the admin I see that you can allocate permissions to a user or a user group to :allow add, change or delete data from a model.

That is great, but I also need t

Answer 1

Permissions system is model-centric and assumes that permissions are tied to models. I think following 2 alternatives are best options:

A. If your views are related to some specific model, use custom permissions on that model as Marcus Whybrow suggested.

B. [not tested, might not work] Subclasss User and define your own permissions there. You don't need actual model, it's just wrapper for your app's custom permission:

from django.contrib.auth.models import User
class MyUser(User):
    class Meta:
        permissions = (('can_visit_$viewset1', 'Can visit $view_set_1'))

Don't forget to run syncdb to add custom permissions to database.