How to automate createsuperuser on django?

Question

I want to auto run manage.py createsuperuser on django but it seams that there is no way of setting a default password.

How can I get this?

Answer 1

If you reference User directly, your code will not work in projects where the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting has been changed to a different user model. A more generic way to create the user would be:

echo "from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model; User = get_user_model(); User.objects.create_superuser('admin', 'admin@myproject.com', 'password')" | python manage.py shell

ORIGINAL ANSWER

Here there is a simple version of the script to create a superuser:

echo "from django.contrib.auth.models import User; User.objects.create_superuser('admin', 'admin@example.com', 'pass')" | python manage.py shell

Answer 2

As of Django 3.0 you can use default createsuperuser --noinput command and set all required fields (including password) as environment variables DJANGO_SUPERUSER_PASSWORD, DJANGO_SUPERUSER_USERNAME, DJANGO_SUPERUSER_EMAIL for example. --noinput flag is required.

This comes from the original docs: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/ref/django-admin/#django-admin-createsuperuser

and i've just checked - it works. Now you can easily export those environment vars and add createsuperuser to your scripts and pipelines.

Answer 3

You could write a simple python script to handle the automation of superuser creation. The User model is just a normal Django model, so you'd follow the normal process of writing a stand-alone Django script. Ex:

import django
django.setup()

from django.contrib.auth.models import User

u = User(username='unique_fellow')
u.set_password('a_very_cryptic_password')
u.is_superuser = True
u.is_staff = True
u.save()

You can also pass createsuperuser a few options, namely --noinput and --username, which would let you automatically create new superusers, but they would not be able to login until you set a password for them.

Answer 4

I was searching for an answer to this myself. I decided to create a Django command which extends the base createsuperuser command (GitHub):

from django.contrib.auth.management.commands import createsuperuser
from django.core.management import CommandError


class Command(createsuperuser.Command):
    help = 'Crate a superuser, and allow password to be provided'

    def add_arguments(self, parser):
        super(Command, self).add_arguments(parser)
        parser.add_argument(
            '--password', dest='password', default=None,
            help='Specifies the password for the superuser.',
        )

    def handle(self, *args, **options):
        password = options.get('password')
        username = options.get('username')
        database = options.get('database')

        if password and not username:
            raise CommandError("--username is required if specifying --password")

        super(Command, self).handle(*args, **options)

        if password:
            user = self.UserModel._default_manager.db_manager(database).get(username=username)
            user.set_password(password)
            user.save()

Example use:

./manage.py createsuperuser2 --username test1 --password 123321 --noinput --email 'blank@email.com'

This has the advantage of still supporting the default command use, while also allowing non-interactive use for specifying a password.

Answer 5

Current most voted answer:

• Deletes the user if it exists and as noted by @Groady in the comments you risk unintentionally deleting any associated records via a cascade delete.
• Checks superuser existence filtering by mail so if two superusers have the same mail god knows which one it deletes.
• It is cumbersome to update the script parameters: username, password, and mail.
• Does not log what it did.

An improved version would be:

USER="admin"
PASS="super_password"
MAIL="admin@mail.com"
script="
from django.contrib.auth.models import User;

username = '$USER';
password = '$PASS';
email = '$MAIL';

if User.objects.filter(username=username).count()==0:
    User.objects.create_superuser(username, email, password);
    print('Superuser created.');
else:
    print('Superuser creation skipped.');
"
printf "$script" | python manage.py shell

Answer 6

DJANGO_SUPERUSER_USERNAME=testuser \
DJANGO_SUPERUSER_PASSWORD=testpass \
python manage.py createsuperuser --noinput

Documentation for the createuser command