diff --git a/djadmin2/__init__.py b/djadmin2/__init__.py
index 651dd0b..9e4414b 100644
--- a/djadmin2/__init__.py
+++ b/djadmin2/__init__.py
@@ -10,3 +10,5 @@ VERSION = __version__  # synonym
 
 # Default datetime input and output formats
 ISO_8601 = 'iso-8601'
+
+default_app_config = "djadmin2.apps.Djadmin2Config"
diff --git a/djadmin2/permissions.py b/djadmin2/permissions.py
index 7624a6c..8bbee29 100644
--- a/djadmin2/permissions.py
+++ b/djadmin2/permissions.py
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ from __future__ import division, absolute_import, unicode_literals
 import logging
 import re
 
+from django.contrib.auth import get_permission_codename
 from django.db.utils import DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS
 from django.apps import apps
 from django.core.exceptions import ValidationError
@@ -400,8 +401,9 @@ def create_view_permissions(app_config, verbosity=2, interactive=True, using=DEF
         # Force looking up the content types in the current database
         # before creating foreign keys to them.
         ctype = ContentType.objects.db_manager(using).get_for_model(klass)
+
         ctypes.add(ctype)
-        perm = ('view_%s' % klass.object_name.lower(), u'Can view %s' % klass._meta.verbose_name_raw)
+        perm = (get_permission_codename('view', klass._meta), 'Can view %s' % (klass._meta.verbose_name_raw))
         searched_perms.append((ctype, perm))
 
     # Find all the Permissions that have a content_type for a model we're