django admin and user model inheritance

[anonymous]

If you extend the User model using inheritance for example:

class UserInfo(User):

....

if you give the delete permission on the UserInfo class you aren't able to delete a "UserInfo" object since you haven't the "can delete user object".

From a functional point of view if I extend the "User" class I want to see in the admin only the extended class and not the original "User" class so the delete permission on the "User" objects should be implicit if I give the delete permission on the UserInfo object.

[Julien Phalip]

Replying to anonymous:

From a functional point of view if I extend the "User" class I want to see in the admin only the extended class and not the original "User" class so the delete permission on the "User" objects should be implicit if I give the delete permission on the UserInfo object.

Thanks for your suggestion. While this might be an interesting use case, this is not how inheritance and permissions are designed to work in Django. It seems that what you want to achieve could reasonably easily be done with a customised ModelAdmin class. If you need any help about this, I suggest you ask on the django user mailing list: ​http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/topics