On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 5:22 PM, ek_wals <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> And I can see exactly how to do it --
> copy  contrib/admin/views/decorators.py:staff_member _required   and
> change
> 'request.user.is_staff'  to 'request.user.is_superuser'
>
> Sure seems repetitive (non-DRY) (wet?)
> Its seems so easy that I can't help but think that I'm overlooking
> something. Why would Django provide both 'is_staff' and 'is_superuser'
> but only provide a decorator for one of them??  Assuming that its just
> an oversight seems dangerous.
>
> Any thoughts would be welcome

Well, normally it is interesting if a user has certain permissions (is he
allowed to log into the admin interface, does he have add permission on
a certain model). It is seldom interesting to know if she has ALL permissions.

Matthias

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