What's the difference between staff, admin, superuser in django?
Django has superuser, staff, admin…
superuser and staff are in django.contib.auth.models.UserManager. Then there is the createsuperuser command of django-admin.
Well, there are admin apps… What's the difference?
Answer
I take this from Django Documentation:
One of the most powerful parts of Django is the automatic admin interface. Best thing is that you can customise it easily.
If logged in as a superuser, you have access to create, edit, and delete any object (models).
You can create staff user using staff flag. The “staff” flag controls whether the user is allowed to log in to the admin interface (i.e., whether that user is considered a “staff member” in your organization). Since this same user system can be used to control access to public (i.e., non-admin) sites, this flag differentiates between public users and administrators.
“Normal” admin users – that is, active, non-superuser staff members – are granted admin access through assigned permissions. Each object editable through the admin interface has three permissions: a create permission, an edit permission and a delete permission for all the models you had created.
Django’s admin site uses a permissions system that you can use to give specific users access only to the portions of the interface that they need. When you create a user, that user has no permissions, and it’s up to you to give the user specific permission