Configuration

After installation we can prepare our project for object permissions handling. In a settings module we need to add guardian to INSTALLED_APPS:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    # ...
    'guardian',
)

and hook guardian’s authentication backend:

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
    'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend', # this is default
    'guardian.backends.ObjectPermissionBackend',
)

As django-guardian supports anonymous user’s object permissions we also need to add following to our settings module:

ANONYMOUS_USER_ID = -1

Note

Once project is configured to work with django-guardian, calling syncdb management command would create User instance for anonymous user support (with name of AnonymousUser).

We can change id to whatever we like. Project should be now ready to use object permissions.