I am writing an authorization backend to get some permissions from custom tables. I added it to settings.py,
It does not appear Django is calling get_group_permissions(self) from this backend. I had print statements and nothing got printed in Please help. class MyBackend(object): supports_object_permissions = False supports_anonymous_user = True def authenticate(self, username, password): return None def get_group_permissions(self): """ Returns a set of permission strings that this user has through his/her groups self. """ print " in my backend group perm" role = Role.objects.filter(user__exact = self.id) if role is not None: perms = role.permissions.values_list('content_type__app_label', 'codename') return set(["%s.%s" % (ct, name) for ct, name in perms]) Models.py class Role(models.Model): group= models.ForeignKey(Group) name = models.CharField(max_length=80, unique=True) permissions = models.ManyToManyField(Permission, verbose_name='permissions', blank=True def __unicode__(self): return self.name -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.