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

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.