separate staff and non staff users with two proxy models (FrontendUser and Editor). Nothing fancy, but as I ended up doing this again and again, this is a simple plug and forget solution, that I'll probably use in many projects from now on.
- staff users can be given the right to edit non staff users (currently not possible, or everyone can make everyone a superuser)
- fieldsets for staff and non staff users can be defined via settings (not yet)
- better admin list views (filters, is_active, etc)
NOTE / WARNING: With django<1.11, it's not possible to run this app with as custom
settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46935758/djangos-get-user-model-only-in-1-11-during-import-time
In your settings, add to INSTALLED_APPS
INSTALLED_APPS = [
...
'separate_users',
...
]
Also, you NEED to define a MIGRATION_MODULES entry for separate_users (yes, a migration is created for proxy models!). As your UserModel might
be different, we cannot guess the needed migrations, so you'll need to create them yourself.
MIGRATION_MODULES = {
'separate_users': 'your_apps.separate_users_migrations',
}
You'll need to create this folder, with an __init__.py in it, then you can run
./manage.py makemigrations (try --dry-run to see if it works as you would expect).
As of a django bug, you'll want to run ./manage.py fix_proxy_permissions, otherwise your non
superusers (but staff) might not be able to edit frontend and/or editor users.