A common request in Django is to use Django's permission model to control who can view particular object types. This is pretty natural, especially as Django already provides default permissions on all models to 'create', 'modify' and 'delete'.
There are various answers to that question on the web, but none of them seemed particularly elegant. After some more hunting around, I found that adding the view permission was most naturally done in a post_syncdb hook. Whenever you issue a 'syncdb' command, all content types can be checked to see if they have a 'view' permission, and if not, create one.
Just grab this gist and throw it in your __init__.py in a management/ directory of one of your apps. It needs to live under a management directory or it won't be discovered with the syncdb hook.
Once there, it should automatically create a view permission for all your objects upon your next syncdb.