Opened 15 years ago

Closed 14 years ago

Last modified 14 years ago

#13503 closed (fixed)

Documentation for "Custom permissions" is misleading

Reported by: Daniel F Moisset Owned by: nobody
Component: Documentation Version: 1.1
Severity: Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

The documentation at http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/#id2 gives an example of custom permissions. It Creates a "USCitizen" model, and custom permissions "can drive", "can vote", etc. These makes it look like the permissions system allows you to describe actions performed by models; when actually the permission system allows you to describe actions performed by *users* (django.contrib.auth.models.User) over other models.

A more realistic (and useful) example, would be something on the lines of a model "Article" with permissions "can publish" and "can edit title", for example

Change History (3)

comment:1 by Russell Keith-Magee, 15 years ago

Triage Stage: UnreviewedAccepted

comment:2 by Ramiro Morales, 14 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

(In [14403]) Fixed #13503 -- Corrected misleading custom permission example in the docs.

Thanks Daniel Moisset for the report.

comment:3 by Ramiro Morales, 14 years ago

(In [14404]) [1.2.X] Fixed #13503 -- Corrected misleading custom permission example in the docs.

Thanks Daniel Moisset for the report.

Backport of [14403] from trunk

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