Django Packages : Permissions

Permissions

A grid of all packages implementing permissions for users and groups in your Django project.

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Package	django-oso	django-guardian	drf-extensions	rules	djangorestframework-api-key	django-permissions-policy	django-prbac	DRF Access Policy	Django-Access	Tabular Permissions Widget	django-permissions-auditor	django-permission2	permission-manager-drf	Django Permafrost	django-simple-perms

Package	django-oso	django-guardian	drf-extensions	rules	djangorestframework-api-key	django-permissions-policy	django-prbac	DRF Access Policy	Django-Access	Tabular Permissions Widget	django-permissions-auditor	django-permission2	permission-manager-drf	Django Permafrost	django-simple-perms
Description	Deprecated: See README	Per object permissions for Django	DRF-extensions is a collection of custom extensions for Django REST Framework	Awesome Django authorization, without the database	🔐 API key permissions for Django REST Framework	Set the Permissions-Policy HTTP header on your Django app.		Declarative access policies/permissions modeled after AWS' IAM policies.	Django-Access - the application introducing dynamic evaluation-based instance-level (row-level) access rights control for Django	Display Django permissions in a HTML table that is translatable and easily customized.	Tool to audit access control on your django app.	An simple permission system which support object permission in Django	Declarative per action/object permissions	Adds User Definable Permissions to Django
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Object-level
Assignment		manager + patched User and Group + shortcut function + Admin Integration (with ModelAdmin extension)		irrelevant								logical only (code executed on object to determine permission)	logical		logical only (code executed on object to determine permission)
Declaration	Using the policy language			registry of callables								declaration in a perms.py file in app	Permissions are declared in a manager class.		, declaration in a perms.py file in app
Inheritance	By writing simple rules			irrelevant								logical only (code executed on object to determine permission)
Logical checks	Using the Polar policy language
Decorator
Database	Logic is written as .polar policy files			registry of callables								only logical check			only logical check
Templatetag
Roles	Check documentation for examples			irrelevant								Logic for object permission can check whatever you want
Cascade update	Permissions are dynamic			irrelevant
Field level
Any-to-any
Model-level
Django 1.2 backend

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Features currently being evaluated

Feature	Description
Object-level	Support for permissions assigned per object.
Assignment	How do you assign permissions for objects?
Declaration	Do you declare permissions for models? How?
Inheritance	Permissions inheritance from related objects.
Logical checks	Support for permission checked dynamically, e.g. can view entry no older than<br>one month.
Decorator	Object-level decorator for views.
Database	Is a database required? If not, how are permissions stored?
Templatetag	Permissions checks in templates via tags.
Roles	Support for roles in permissions.
Cascade update	Support for cascade update of related objects, e.g. if added view or change perm<br>for the product, then add view perm for the product category.
Field level	Supports permissions at the field level of models
Any-to-any	Permissions for any object to any other object.
Model-level	Support for model-level perms (either on its own or by seamless integration with<br>django.contrib.auth permissions).
Django 1.2 backend	See: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.2/#object-level-permissions<br>.