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DanielTheRocketMan
DanielTheRocketMan

Reputation: 3249

How is python manage.py createsuperuser useful?

I am a new in Django. I have found this piece of code

python manage.py createsuperuser

How is this useful? In what kind of situation is it necessary?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3806

Answers (4)

Prince
Prince

Reputation: 21

@hobs thanks for this awesome answer. it pointed me in the right direction with regards to finding an ultimate answer that worked for me. Below is my working config, the only difference is I modified the User import for newer versions of Django

from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
User = get_user_model()
User.objects.create_superuser('adminuser', '[email protected]', 'password')

and the command I run is;

python3 manage.py shell < /opt/admin.py

I needed this for a Dockerfile config and below is how the line looks in Dockerfile line

RUN \
    python3 ./manage.py migrate && \
    python3 manage.py shell < adminuser.py

thanks again and hopefully someone else finds this useful

Upvotes: 2

hobs
hobs

Reputation: 19269

Whenever you wipe your database or deploy to a server you often want to be able to setup up an "admin" account to be able to log into the /admin/ interface like this:

python manage.py createsuperuser -u admin -e [email protected] --noinput
python manage.py changepassword admin

Unfortunately, usually you want your deployments to be automatic and as @mu pointed out you still must interactively set the password. However, you can just add the record to the database yourself if you want to automate the process:

echo "from django.contrib.auth.models import User" > createadmin.py
echo "User.objects.create_superuser('dan', '[email protected]', 'pass')" >> createadmin.py
python manage.py shell < createadmin.py

Of course don't forget to set your password to something other than 'pass'.

Upvotes: 1

doniyor
doniyor

Reputation: 37904

python manage.py createsuperuser

in addition to mu's answer, superuser is the one who can log into admin page and who can have permissions to add, edit, delete objects in thru admin page.

Upvotes: 3

Anshul Goyal
Anshul Goyal

Reputation: 76987

From the django-docs (emphasis mine):

This command is only available if Django’s authentication system (django.contrib.auth) is installed.

Creates a superuser account (a user who has all permissions). This is useful if you need to create an initial superuser account or if you need to programmatically generate superuser accounts for your site(s).

When run interactively, this command will prompt for a password for the new superuser account. When run non-interactively, no password will be set, and the superuser account will not be able to log in until a password has been manually set for it.

Upvotes: 5

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