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Michal Misza
Michal Misza

Reputation: 13

forgotten credentials (superuser and password) in Django project

Forgotten superuser name and password in Django project. What is the correct way to recover it specially the superuser name? Is it a good practice to create a new superuser to get to admin panel and recover the forgotten superuser name from there or there is another way to recover it in terminal?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1992

Answers (2)

Surya Bista
Surya Bista

Reputation: 564

python manage.py changepassword <username>

Upvotes: 2

Abdul Aziz Barkat
Abdul Aziz Barkat

Reputation: 21787

You can get the usernames (but not the password since it is hashed) of super users by making a query in the shell (python manage.py shell), while doing this you can also change their password to something new if you want by using the set_password method:

from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model


UserModel = get_user_model()
superusers = UserModel.objects.filter(is_superuser=True)
for user in superusers:
    print(user.username)
    # Want to reset their password? Run below line
    user.set_password('new_password')

You can of course create a new superuser using python manage.py createsuperuser if you want to.

Upvotes: 0

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