Giving default permissions or a default group to new users

Question

Default behaviour seems to be new users have no permissions and no groups. However I\'d like not to have to manually grant every single new users basic permissions, and I\'d ass

Answer 1

You can subscribe to post_save signal on User model and put newly created user to desired group or add permissions.

from django.contrib.auth.models import Group

def add_to_default_group(sender, **kwargs):
    user = kwargs["instance"]
    if kwargs["created"]:
        group = Group.objects.get(name='groupname')
        user.groups.add(group)

And on django 1.8+ put following code into your AppConfig.ready()

from django.conf import settings

post_save.connect(add_to_default_group, sender=settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL)