Extending/Subclassing admin Groups & Users classes in Django

Question

I'd like to extend/subclass admin Groups & Users classes in Django.

• CourseAdmin group should be doing what admin can do, and they have extra information like email, phone, address.
• CourseAdmin should be able to create CourseAdmins, Teachers, Courses and Students.
• Teacher should be able to edit courses and students belong to them. They can't create anything new.

I want to make use of current Django admin classes Group & User instead of doing my own. Please kindly advise. Thank you!

Answer 1

You can't both extend and use the existing ones. Use a OneToOneField instead.

Answer 2

Do you mean that the whole group CourseAdmin has one email, phone and address? I doubt that.

Otherwise you don't have to subclass anything. Just create a user profile model (that includes e.g. email, phone, address), create the groups: CourseAdmin, Teacher, Students and set up the permissions accordingly.

You can distinguish the users by checking in which group they are in.

More about user authentication.