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Erik Åsland
Erik Åsland

Reputation: 9782

Django: .is_superuser field not working

I am trying to set the boolean field of is_superuser of the generic User Django model to True via the following code...

User.objects.create(username = 'Randy', email = '[email protected]', password = 'admin', is_superuser = True)

Does the is_superuser field require anything else? Or am I doing something obviously wrong?

Things I have tried...

1) is_superuser = 'True'

2) is_superuser = 'true'

3) is_superuser = true

4) is_superuser = True

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1646

Answers (2)

masnun
masnun

Reputation: 11916

'True' is a Python string, not a boolean. It has to be True. Your code worked perfectly for me. Let me copy paste from my Terminal: 

>>> from django.contrib.auth.models import User
>>> user = User.objects.create(username = 'Randy', email = '[email protected]', password = 'admin', is_superuser = True)
>>> user
<User: Randy>
>>> user.is_superuser
True
>>>

However I see you used a plain text password. Please use make_password for such cases: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/topics/auth/passwords/#django.contrib.auth.hashers.make_password

Upvotes: 6

yeh
yeh

Reputation: 1506

from django.contrib.auth.models import User

def blah(args):
    User.objects.create_superuser(username='admin', password='123', email='')

Upvotes: 1

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