How to create a default user on meteor?

Question

I want to create an admin user if no users exist. I tried it on a js file inside the server folder

Meteor.startup(function () {
  if(!Meteor.users.find().count()         


        

Answer 1

this way works for me:

var users=[
   {email: "dgra@gmail.com", username: "gra", name: "gra", roles:['admin']}
];
_.each(users, function(user){
    Accounts.createUser({
        email: user.email,
        password: "admin",
        profile: {username: user.username},
        profile: {name: user.name},
        roles: user.roles
    });
});

Answer 2

After some time, I tested again the above code with meteor 0.6.4 and it worked without problem. Probably was an issue with meteor 0.6.1 or I accidentally solved the problem somewhere in the code.

Answer 3

I've never found any problem on creating a user on Meteor. This is my coffeescript code:

Meteor.startup ->
  if Meteor.users.find.count() is 0
    options =
      email: 'email@example.com'
      password: 'pass'
    Accounts.createUser(options)

Answer 4

I would suggest a /server/fixtures.js file. In this file, you can add your default user creation as such:

if ( Meteor.users.find().count() === 0 ) {
    Accounts.createUser({
        username: 'username',
        email: 'email',
        password: 'asdfasdf',
        profile: {
            first_name: 'fname',
            last_name: 'lname',
            company: 'company',
        }
    });
}