How to make Django admin site accessed by non-staff user?

Question

I would like to implement a 2nd admin site which provides a subset of feature of the primary admin site. That\'s possible and described in the Django docs

However, I wou

Answer 1

What's wrong with this approach? Any idea how to implement this feature?

What's wrong with this approach is that permissions and groups can already provide you with what you need. There is no need to subclass AdminSite if all you need is to divide users.

This is probably why this feature is so poorly documented, IMHO

Answer 2

I think that your approach should now be possible: http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/14434 (closed 5 weeks ago)

However, the explicit "is_staff" check is still done in two places (apart from the staff_member_required decorator):

• django.contrib.admin.forms.AdminAuthenticationForm.clean()

  On top of "has_permission()" you'd need to provide your non-staff AdminSite with a "login_form" that doesn't do the is_staff check, so could just subclass and adjust clean() accordingly.

• templates/admin/base.html

  would need to be slightly customized. The div with id "user-tools" is only shown for active staff members. I'm assuming that's done because the login form also uses this template, and someone could be logged in as an active non-staff member but still should'nt see those links.