contrib.sites Admin problem

Mike Dewhirst

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Feb 4, 2020, 5:56:55 AM2/4/20

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How do I control contrib.sites in the Admin?

I want to make it invisible to everyone except the superuser.

I have tried - inexpertly - to hijack the sites app in my own project
but it stubbornly insists on using its own admin.py

Thanks for switching on any light bulbs

Cheers

Mike

אורי‎

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Feb 4, 2020, 6:48:44 AM2/4/20

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Did you try `django_admin.site.unregister(Site)` before you register Site with your own admin?

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maninder singh Kumar

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Feb 4, 2020, 7:05:12 AM2/4/20

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I believe the django templates used for admin are pretty good. Are they as good as they claim ?

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Mike Dewhirst

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On 4/02/2020 5:47 pm, אורי wrote:
> Did you try `django_admin.site.unregister(Site)` before you register
> Site with your own admin?

Yes.

I have tried lots of things but I think I'm missing something very
basic. It must begin in settings.INSTALLED_APPS somehow. This is how it
is currently sitting:

#settings.py
INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    #"django.contrib.sites",
    sites,
    ...
]

#<project>/sites/__init__.py
from django.contrib.sites import *

#<project>/sites/admin.py
from django.contrib import admin
from .models import Site

django.admin.site.unregister(Site)

class SiteAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    list_display = ('domain', 'name')
    search_fields = ('domain', 'name')

    def has_view_permission(self, request=None, obj=None):
        return False    # request.user.is_superuser

admin.site.register(Site, SiteAdmin)

That "return False" line works properly when monkey-patching
contrib/sites/admin.py

Mike

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> On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 7:56 AM Mike Dewhirst <mi...@dewhirst.com.au
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> How do I control contrib.sites in the Admin?
>
> I want to make it invisible to everyone except the superuser.
>
> I have tried - inexpertly - to hijack the sites app in my own project
> but it stubbornly insists on using its own admin.py
>
> Thanks for switching on any light bulbs
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> Cheers
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Mike Dewhirst

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Feb 4, 2020, 7:28:46 AM2/4/20

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On 4/02/2020 6:03 pm, maninder singh Kumar wrote:
> I believe the django templates used for admin are pretty good. Are
> they as good as they claim ?

Not sure what you are getting at here. They are very generic and I'm not
sure how I might intercept the sites template. Is that what you mean?

Mike

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>
>> Did you try `django_admin.site.unregister(Site)` before you register
>> Site with your own admin?
>>
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>> On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 7:56 AM Mike Dewhirst <mi...@dewhirst.com.au
>> <mailto:mi...@dewhirst.com.au>> wrote:
>>
>> How do I control contrib.sites in the Admin?
>>
>> I want to make it invisible to everyone except the superuser.
>>
>> I have tried - inexpertly - to hijack the sites app in my own
>> project
>> but it stubbornly insists on using its own admin.py
>>
>> Thanks for switching on any light bulbs
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>> Cheers
>>
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Mike Dewhirst

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Tomorrow I'm going to examine contenttype permissions. Maybe that's
where to hide things.

Back in the am

Cheers

Mike

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How are your models defined in sites?

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Mike Dewhirst

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On 4/02/2020 7:00 pm, Mike Dewhirst wrote:
> Tomorrow I'm going to examine contenttype permissions. Maybe that's
> where to hide things.

Yes indeed. Foot in mouth again. Removing view permissions to site
models drops it from the Admin.

Thank you Ori and Maninder for taking time - sorry to bother you

Mike

maninder singh Kumar

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I figure that since only one kind of users, namely super or admin exist in django, it has got to be in the permissions. As staff items are not objects.

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