Valid use case for django admin?
django, django-admin, python
Solution
No, the Django admin is not suited for individual user profiles, each user would be able to see, and edit, all other user profiles. This is suited more to an administrator who has to manage all the users at once.
What you need to build is a user profile page. Django already has a nice login system courtesy of the django.contrib.auth module. You can easily integrate this into your pages, and its exactly what the Django admin uses to authenticate users.
Next you'll have to build a simple page that exposes that specific user's profile information based on their User model. This should be relatively painless as it will only require one view and one template, and the template can take advantage of ModelForms.
Problem
I want to build a django site where a certain group of trusted users can edit their profile information. Does it make sense to have each trusted user go through the django admin interface? I'd only want them to be able to see and edit their own information (obviously). It doesn't seem like this fits the way the django people define "trust", especially the bolded bit... From The Django Book, Chapter 18: The admin is designed to be used by people who you, the developer, trust. This doesn’t just mean “people who have been authenticated;” it means that Django assumes that your content editors can be trusted to do the right thing. This means that there’s no “approval” process for editing content — if you trust your users, nobody needs to approve of their edits. It also means that the permission system, while powerful, has no support for limiting access on a per-object basis. If you trust someone to edit their own stories, you trust them not to edit anyone else’s without permission. Is this one of those use cases that fits with django's admin module, or is it just a specialized view for a non-trusted user?