id summary reporter owner description type status component version severity resolution keywords cc stage has_patch needs_docs needs_tests needs_better_patch easy ui_ux 17904 Custom permissions on proxy model no longer created Koen Biermans Arthur Rio "I have been using some specific permissions concerning the auth user model, so I created a proxy model on user like this: {{{ class User(auth_models.User): class Meta: proxy = True permissions = ( (""display_users"", ""May display users information""), (""edit_users"", ""May edit users information""), ) }}} In 1.3 these custom permissions were created during syncdb (linked to the auth.User model). Now I was testing my project with the 1.4 RC, and it turns out those permissions are no longer created. This is caused by the refactor of the create_permissions code, which now uses get_for_models to determine the class to get the options for, but this returns the proxied class (auth.User), not the proxy class, so my custom permissions are not found and not created. " Bug closed contrib.auth dev Normal fixed proxy contenttype permission charette.s@… Accepted 1 0 0 1 0 0