How add group for custom user in django?

Question

I created custom model of user using this official docs customizing authentication in Django But how can add groups and premissions? My django is version 1.9

Answer 1

You can use groups and permissions with your custom user model by using the PermissionsMixin (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/topics/auth/customizing/#custom-users-and-permissions)

Just inherit the PermissionsMixin with your custom user model like so:

class CustomUser(AbstractBaseUser, PermissionsMixin):

Then you can access it in exactly the same way you would with the default django.contrib.auth User model.

Answer 2

TL; DR

('Group Permissions', {
    'fields': ('groups', 'user_permissions', )
})

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Detailed Explanation

Add this in admin.py

app/admin.py

from django.contrib import admin
from django.contrib.auth.admin import UserAdmin
from .models import App


class AppAdminConfig(UserAdmin):
    # ordering, list_display, etc..
    
    fieldsets = (
        # Other fieldsets

        ('Group Permissions', {
            'classes': ('collapse',),
            'fields': ('groups', 'user_permissions', )
        })
    )


admin.site.register(App, AppAdminConfig)

If anyone is interested how entire code looks like, see this.

Answer 3

As a complement to @ajinzrathod answer: I applied the solution and got error because I missed some trailing commas. The working code in admin.py is as following:

class UserAdminConfig(UserAdmin):
    model = CustomUser
    fieldsets = (
        # Other fieldsets

        ('Group Permissions', {
            'fields': ('groups', 'user_permissions', )
        }),
    )
admin.site.register(CustomUser, UserAdminConfig)