Authorization or authorisation is the function of specifying access rights to resources related to information security and computer security in general and to access control in particular

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Check User permissions

User permissions or rights are managed with a list of dot notation strings, as is explained in the introduction

To check user permissions you will need to check the API. In this example we request permissions for user with ID 1 in api/v1/users/1/, as you see, project_permissions is an array of permissions:

{
    "id": 1,
    "project_permissions": [
        "cms.user",
        "landerdash.all",
        "landerdash.manage.any",
        "landerdash.manage.own",
        "ldap.user",
        "backoffice.user",
        "lander.editor",
        "lander.admin",
        "wiggum.impersonate",
        "wiggum.all"
    ],
    "last_login": "2016-03-04T08:45:16.197905Z",
    "username": "slok",
    "email": "slok69@gmail.com",
    "first_name": "Xabier",
    "last_name": "Larrakoetxea",
    "date_joined": "2015-07-22T14:54:43Z",
    "active": true,
    "external_service": ""
}