I'm not convinced that a system check promoting security by obscurity adds 
much value. The original poster wrote "sometimes it can be a security 
concern." Maybe that's the case (how so?) but for most sites I would say 
it's not.
On Wednesday, November 18, 2020 at 7:33:47 AM UTC-5 Carles Pina Estany 
wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> On Nov/16/2020, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
>
> > Either way: I'd be happy to write a django check to make sure that
> > 'admin/' is not routed to admin.
>
> Regarding this check: this morning I've done a very preliminary/for fun
> draft to play with.
>
>
> https://github.com/cpina/django/commit/199c2fb26dc6b323195b8136bda596d1cc9857f1
>
> I'm not sure what is the best way to check if /admin is routed to
> django.contrib.admin. At the moment it's doing:
>
> resolve(admin_url)._func_path == 'django.contrib.admin.sites.index'
>
> Yes, I know! :-)
>
> I could also do something along the lines of:
> resolve(admin_url).func.admin_site == admin.site
>
> This causes problems on the unit test side (need to import admin.site).
> Still I don't really like it.
>
> Does anyone have any better suggestions or comments? (or code pointer).
> Otherwise later on I'll have another look.
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> -- 
> Carles Pina i Estany
> https://carles.pina.cat
>

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