Remove (or hide) default Permissions from Django

Question

I\'m developing a Django app that will have two administration backends. One for daily use by \"normal\" users and the default one for more advanced tasks and for the developers

Answer 1

I struggled with this same problem for a while and I think I've come up with a clean solution. Here's how you hide the permissions for Django's auth app:

from django.contrib import admin
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
from django import forms
from django.contrib.auth.models import Permission

class MyGroupAdminForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = MyGroup

    permissions = forms.ModelMultipleChoiceField(
        Permission.objects.exclude(content_type__app_label='auth'), 
        widget=admin.widgets.FilteredSelectMultiple(_('permissions'), False))


class MyGroupAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    form = MyGroupAdminForm
    search_fields = ('name',)
    ordering = ('name',)

admin.site.unregister(Group)
admin.site.register(MyGroup, MyGroupAdmin)

Of course it can easily be modified to hide whatever permissions you want. Let me know if this works for you.