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

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.