django-guardian/django-guardian

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3910 stars · 593 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

django-guardian is a Python library that implements per-object (row-level) permissions on top of Django's built-in authorization backend. It lets developers assign and check permissions for individual model instances for users and groups, with admin integration.

Use cases

• assign permissions to a specific object for a user in Django
• implement row-level access control in a Django app
• check if a user can edit a particular record
• manage per-object permissions for groups in Django admin
• restrict users to only the records they own or are shared with them

When to choose

• you need object-level or row-level permissions beyond Django's model-wide permissions
• you want a mature, widely-used Django authorization extension with admin integration

When to avoid

• you only need model-level or global permissions (Django's built-in auth suffices)
• you are not using Django
• you need complex policy-based access control like ABAC/ReBAC, where a dedicated authorization service may fit better

Facets

library · maturity stable

authorization auth web-development security backend python django object-level-permissions row-level-security access-control

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