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

very easy, listen on post syncdb signal and read superuser credentials from a configuration file and apply it.

checkout django-bootup

https://github.com/un33k/django-bootup/blob/master/README

Answer 2

This small python script could create a normal user or a superuser

#!/usr/bin/env python

import os
import sys
import argparse
import random
import string
import django


def main(arguments):

    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    parser.add_argument('--username', dest='username', type=str)
    parser.add_argument('--email', dest='email', type=str)
    parser.add_argument('--settings', dest='settings', type=str)
    parser.add_argument('--project_dir', dest='project_dir', type=str)
    parser.add_argument('--password', dest='password', type=str, required=False)
    parser.add_argument('--superuser', dest='superuser', action='store_true', required=False)

    args = parser.parse_args()

    sys.path.append(args.project_dir)
    os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = args.settings
    from django.contrib.auth.models import User
    django.setup()

    username = args.username
    email = args.email
    password = ''.join(random.sample(string.letters, 20)) if args.password is None else args.password
    superuser = args.superuser 

    try:
        user_obj = User.objects.get(username=args.username)
        user_obj.set_password(password)
        user_obj.save()
    except User.DoesNotExist:
    if superuser:
            User.objects.create_superuser(username, email, password)
    else:
        User.objects.create_user(username, email, password)

    print password


if __name__ == '__main__':
    sys.exit(main(sys.argv[1:]))

--superuser & --password are not mandatory.

If --superuser is not defined, normal user will be created If --password is not defined, a random password will be generated

    Ex : 
        /var/www/vhosts/PROJECT/python27/bin/python /usr/local/sbin/manage_dja_superusertest.py --username USERNAME --email TEST@domain.tld --project_dir /var/www/vhosts/PROJECT/PROJECT/ --settings PROJECT.settings.env 

Answer 3

I use './manage.py shell -c':

./manage.py shell -c "from django.contrib.auth.models import User; User.objects.create_superuser('admin', 'admin@example.com', 'adminpass')"

This doesn't uses an extra echo, this has the benefit that you can pass it to a docker container for execution. Without the need to use sh -c "..." which gets you into quote escaping hell.

And remember that first comes username, than the email.

If you have a custom user model you need to import that and not auth.models.User

Answer 4

I would suggest running a Data Migration, so when migrations are applied to the project, a superuser is created as part of the migrations. The username and password can be setup as environment variables. This is also useful when running an app in a container (see this thread as an example)

Your data migration would then look like this:

import os
from django.db import migrations

class Migration(migrations.Migration):
    dependencies = [
        ('<your_app>', '<previous_migration>'),
    ] # can also be emtpy if it's your first migration

    def generate_superuser(apps, schema_editor):
        from django.contrib.auth.models import User

        DJANGO_DB_NAME = os.environ.get('DJANGO_DB_NAME', "default")
        DJANGO_SU_NAME = os.environ.get('DJANGO_SU_NAME')
        DJANGO_SU_EMAIL = os.environ.get('DJANGO_SU_EMAIL')
        DJANGO_SU_PASSWORD = os.environ.get('DJANGO_SU_PASSWORD')

        superuser = User.objects.create_superuser(
            username=DJANGO_SU_NAME,
            email=DJANGO_SU_EMAIL,
            password=DJANGO_SU_PASSWORD)

        superuser.save()

    operations = [
        migrations.RunPython(generate_superuser),
    ]

Hope that helps!

EDIT: Some might raise the question how to set these environment variables and make Django aware of them. There are a lot of ways and it's been answered in other SO posts, but just as a quick pointer, creating a .env file is a good idea. You could then use the python-dotenv package, but if you have setup a virtual environment with pipenv, it will automatically set the envvars in your .env file. Likewise, running your app via docker-compose can read in your .env file.