diff --git a/panoramix/bin/panoramix b/panoramix/bin/panoramix
index 461341e8c..cc96fc4d0 100755
--- a/panoramix/bin/panoramix
+++ b/panoramix/bin/panoramix
@@ -7,20 +7,18 @@ import json
 from subprocess import Popen
 
 from flask.ext.script import Manager
+from panoramix import app
 from flask.ext.migrate import MigrateCommand
 from panoramix import db
+from flask.ext.appbuilder import Base
 from sqlalchemy import Column, Integer, String, Table, DateTime
-
-from panoramix import app
-from panoramix import models
-
+from panoramix import models, utils
 
 config = app.config
 
 manager = Manager(app)
 manager.add_command('db', MigrateCommand)
 
-from flask.ext.appbuilder import Base
 
 @manager.option(
     '-d', '--debug', action='store_true',
@@ -45,6 +43,11 @@ def runserver(debug, port):
         print("Starting server with command: " + cmd)
         Popen(cmd, shell=True).wait()
 
+@manager.command
+def init():
+    """Inits the Panoramix application"""
+    utils.init()
+
 @manager.option(
     '-s', '--sample', action='store_true',
     help="Only load 1000 rows (faster, used for testing)")
diff --git a/panoramix/utils.py b/panoramix/utils.py
index 3fc164517..31517e8ce 100644
--- a/panoramix/utils.py
+++ b/panoramix/utils.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ from sqlalchemy.types import TypeDecorator, TEXT
 import json
 import parsedatetime
 import functools
+from panoramix import db
 
 
 class memoized(object):
@@ -78,7 +79,6 @@ def parse_human_timedelta(s):
     return d - dttm
 
 
-
 class JSONEncodedDict(TypeDecorator):
     """Represents an immutable structure as a json-encoded string."""
     impl = TEXT
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ class JSONEncodedDict(TypeDecorator):
             value = json.loads(value)
         return value
 
+
 def color(s):
     """
     Get a consistent color from the same string using a hash function
@@ -109,3 +110,20 @@ def color(s):
     h = hashlib.md5(s)
     i = int(h.hexdigest(), 16)
     return colors[i % len(colors)]
+
+
+def init():
+    """
+    Inits the Panoramix application with security roles and such
+    """
+    from panoramix import appbuilder
+    sm = appbuilder.sm
+    alpha = sm.add_role("Alpha")
+    from flask_appbuilder.security.sqla import models
+    perms = db.session.query(models.PermissionView).all()
+    for perm in perms:
+        if perm.view_menu.name not in (
+                'UserDBModelView', 'RoleModelView', 'ResetPasswordView',
+                'Security'):
+            sm.add_permission_role(alpha, perm)
+    sm.add_role("Gamma")
diff --git a/tests/core_tests.py b/tests/core_tests.py
index 24848d8ba..49d10d4ae 100644
--- a/tests/core_tests.py
+++ b/tests/core_tests.py
@@ -4,9 +4,8 @@ import unittest
 import urllib2
 os.environ['PANORAMIX_CONFIG'] = 'tests.panoramix_test_config'
 from flask.ext.testing import LiveServerTestCase, TestCase
-from flask_login import login_user
 
-from panoramix import app, appbuilder, db, models
+from panoramix import app, db, models, utils
 BASE_DIR = app.config.get("BASE_DIR")
 cli = imp.load_source('cli', BASE_DIR + "/bin/panoramix")
 
@@ -21,6 +20,9 @@ class LiveTest(TestCase):
     def setUp(self):
         pass
 
+    def test_init(self):
+        utils.init()
+
     def test_load_examples(self):
         cli.load_examples(sample=True)