Django: Integrate Permissions and Groups functionality into Custom User Model

Question

I have create a custom user model for my django apps. Now i want to use the django permissions and groups system. I made permission and groups but when i go to use them in my custom user model a take errors like

>>> john.groups.add(special_users)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'MyCustomUserModel' object has no attribute 'groups'

I imagine that i have to put some extra code in my custom user model to integrate this functionality Could anyone help with this problem?

Answer 1

Finally MyCustomUserModel had to inherit and from PermissionsMixin

class MyCustomUserModel(AbstractBaseUser,PermissionsMixin):