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

If you are creating your own user management backend and only want to show your custom permissions you can filter out the default permissions by excluding permission with a name that starts with "Can".

WARNING: You must remember not to name your permissions starting with "Can"!!!! If they decide to change the naming convention this might not work.

With credit to pmdarrow this is how I did this in my project:

from django.contrib.auth.forms import UserChangeForm
from django.contrib.auth.models import Permission
from django.contrib import admin    

class UserEditForm(UserChangeForm):
    class Meta:
        model = User

        exclude = (
                   'last_login',
                   'is_superuser',
                   'is_staff',
                   'date_joined',
                   )

    user_permissions = forms.ModelMultipleChoiceField(
        Permission.objects.exclude(name__startswith='Can'), 
        widget=admin.widgets.FilteredSelectMultiple(_('permissions'), False))