allowing only super user login

Question

I have written a django page that requires only super users to login. So I have added

foo_view = staff_member_required(foo_view)

but it doesn't cut, now I can control only allowing staff marked users to login but this doesn't cut. I have tried something like

def foo_view(request):
       if not request.user.is_superuser:
           #render some "not allowed page"
       #else render the page

but it doesn't seem to help as giving me errors.

Answer 1

Try:

from django.contrib.auth.decorators import user_passes_test

def foo_view(request):
    # ...
foo_view = user_passes_test(lambda u: u.is_superuser)(foo_view)

Or (with Python >= 2.4):

from django.contrib.auth.decorators import user_passes_test

@user_passes_test(lambda u: u.is_superuser)
def foo_view(request):
    # ...

Answer 2

The code you suggested works perfect for me, I used it in many projects since Django 1.4:

from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
from django.http import HttpResponse

@login_required
def foo_view(request):
   if not request.user.is_superuser:
       return HttpResponse('The user is not superuser')

   # Do whatever you need to do

This code works perfect for me since Django 1.4 to 1.7 at least.