You have a model A with a relation to another model B. In the Django admin, you have full permissions for model A and none for model B. However, if you create a new object for model A, you need to select a related object from model B. Tough luck: Permission denied! [...]

For our subversion repositories we only allow users to connect through ssh public key login. We are switching towards using Fabric for doing automated deployments (in combination with zc.buildout, which we already use). Unfortunately it seems that both Fabric and paramiko, the python library Fabric uses for making ssh connections, don't support the ForwardAgent option in ~/.ssh/config which allows you to forward your ssh-agent to ... [...]

To import large amounts of CSV data from a file into a MySQL database you can use the LOAD DATA [LOCAL] INFILE command. There are some caveats using this command having to do with security. In order for LOAD DATA to work you will have to enable the command on both the server and client. To do this for the server, you can edit your ... [...]