How to create user from django shell

Question

When i create user from django-admin user password\'s are encrypted . but when i create user from django shell user-pasword is saved in plain text . Example :

Answer 1

You use user.set_password to set passwords in the django shell. I'm not even sure if directly setting the password via user.password would even work, since Django expects a hash of the password.

The password field doesn't store passwords; it stores them as $$$, so when it checks a password, it calculates the hash, and compares it. I doubt the user actually has a password whose calculated password hash is in $$$ form.

If you get the json with all the information needed to create the User, you could just do

User.objects.create_user(**data)

assuming your passed json is called data.

Note: This will throw an error if you have extra or missing items in data.

If you really want to override this behavior, you can do

def override_setattr(self,name,value):
    if name == 'password':
        self.set_password(value)
    else:
        super().__setattr__(self,name,value) #or however super should be used for your version

User.__setattr__ = override_setattr

I haven't tested this solution, but it should work. Use at your own risk.