On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Jeff Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I thought of something that might prove useful.
>
> Anyone that has installed trac has used trac's command line admin interface.
>
> Something similar for django might be desirable in some situations.
>
> What I'm thinking is more or less a drop-in replacement for the
> django.contrib.admin app. One would get access to admin functionality from
> the command line:
>
> python manage.py admin-cli
>
> One would be able to add, delete, or modify instances. It is possible that
> this might be more useful as a curses-driven app rather than as a straight
> CLI similar to trac's.
>
> The benefits to such a system would include higher security for the web
> portal. I might have a blog that I really don't want to get spammed. I
> disable comments, and I uninstall the admin interface. I would be able to
> make all changes to my site independent of any web requests. Granted, this
> is security for the paranoid.
>
> Another benefit would be that it is nice to be able to edit content in more
> than one way. Sometimes a full-blown web browser is just out of the
> question. My server doesn't have X on it at all, so if I want to edit
> something through the admin interface, I either have to get up, and bring my
> laptop to where my server terminal is, or I have to get up and go use my
> desktop. Neither of these are a big deal, but the point is that it'd be nice
> to have the option to simply use a CLI for a django admin.
>
> There's no reason to write something like this to make it necessary to take
> out the existing django admin from your INSTALLED_APPS-- it would be an
> opt-in app, just like the web admin interface.
>
> I haven't found anything like this that already exists. I'd be willing to do
> some coding for something like this if there's some interest. Please respond
> with your opinions, comments, constructive criticism, etc. If its already
> been done, I'd be excited to hear about that as well.
>
python manage.py shell
> Jeff Anderson
>
>
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