title: Django app for user/account settings
body: <p>Im prepping for developing one project and am in process of mapping out stuff i can use for it. This project is going to need different group/user based model &amp; object permissions and settings.</p>
  
  <p>I know i can use django-objectpermissions (https://github.com/washingtontimes/django-objectpermissions) and djangos own model permissions. But there are some cases, when you dont really need to set object/model permissions, but rather a setting - can this account/user do something, which is not related to certain object or model. Has someone developed app for this? Or what kind of approach do people take when they have such need? Perhaps create dummy django model and let djangos model permissions handle the rest?</p>
  
  <p>I also know, that this does something similar - <a href="https://github.com/danielroseman/django-dbsettings" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/danielroseman/django-dbsettings</a>. But when i skimmed through the code i got impression, that those settings are all user based - i need also group based settings.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Edit:</strong> People keep offering me permissions apps. What i am looking for is not permissions app, but settings app. Those settings/permissions are not related to any objects. </p>
  
  <p>Basically. In my project i need to answer questions - Can this user see/do this thing?. That "thing" is most likely a view. So one of the answers almost works. But the check i do at view, is not if user has permission to some model/object. Its rather, if the user has this setting turned on, of if users group has this setting turned on. </p>
  
  <p>Alan</p>