django-guardian
Tool and Usage
Project details
- License
- Multi-license
- Programming language
- Python
- Author
- Lukasz Balcerzak
- Latest release
- 2.4.0
- Latest release date
Project health
Why this tool?
The django-guardian project is typically used in environments and projects where the default Django permissions are not enough. For example, an application with multiple users and many objects may require detailed permissions on who can see a particular record. This could go as far as giving only the creator of a record (=object) access plus the people with a particular access level.
Usage and audience
django-guardian is commonly used for application security. Target users for this tool are developers.
Tool review and remarks
The review and analysis of this project resulted in the following remarks for this security tool:
Strengths
- + More than 1000 GitHub stars
- + The source code of this software is available
- + Well-known tool
Installation
Supported operating systems
Django-guardian is known to work on Linux, Microsoft Windows, and macOS.
Dependencies
Several dependencies are required to use django-guardian.
- six
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Categories
This tool is categorized as a Django security tool.