Django create superuser from batch file

Question

I'm trying to make a batch file that runs syncdb to create a database file, and then create a superuser with the username "admin" and the password "admin".

My code so far:

python manage.py syncdb --noinput
python manage.py createsuperuser --username admin --email admin@exmaple.com 
python manage.py runserver

Now this prompts me to enter a password and then confirm the password. Can I enter this information with a command from the same batch file, another batch file, or is this just not possible?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6244382/how-to-automate-createsuperuser-on-django — Lele, Mar 02 '16 at 17:36

David Dahan · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-17T00:23:04.600

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As it seems you can't provide a password with the echo ''stuff | cmd, the only way I see to do it is to create it in Python:

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

edited Nov 17 '14 at 00:23

answered Nov 16 '14 at 23:58

David Dahan

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I tried what you suggested, and it is still prompting me for a password as if the echo did not feed it. – Nick James Nov 17 '14 at 00:07
My mistake, it's probably impossible since it's a password. I have updated my answer with something else you can try – David Dahan Nov 17 '14 at 00:23
I wonder when they will change this mess, would be nice to do this properly one day – holms Mar 02 '18 at 16:57
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This gotta be most useful hack for testing python app at initial state – swdev Jul 16 '19 at 15:54

Alexey Trofimov · Answer 2 · 2021-02-10T05:41:53.870

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As of Django 3.0 (per the docs) you can use the createsuperuser --no-input option and set the password with the DJANGO_SUPERUSER_PASSWORD environment variable, e.g.,

DJANGO_SUPERUSER_PASSWORD=my_password ./manage.py createsuperuser \
    --no-input \
    --username=my_user \
    --email=my_user@domain.com

or, using all environment variables:

DJANGO_SUPERUSER_PASSWORD=my_password \
DJANGO_SUPERUSER_USERNAME=my_user \
DJANGO_SUPERUSER_EMAIL=my_user@domain.com \
./manage.py createsuperuser \
--no-input

edited Feb 10 '21 at 05:41

answered Dec 24 '19 at 10:20

Alexey Trofimov

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It should be DJANGO_SUPERUSER_USERNAME – meneses.pt Feb 09 '21 at 18:25

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 07 '20 at 08:01

And if as is good practice you are using a custom user (CustomUser in this case)

echo "from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model; CustomUser = get_user_model();  CustomUser.objects.create_superuser('me', 'nt@example.co.uk', 'mypwd')" | python manage.py shell

Django create superuser from batch file

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