Managing Users

Creating a User

Changing User Settings

Changing User Password

Creating a User from the Command Line

A user's type can be:

• Read only (can access all data but not make new entries)
• Standard (default, can access and make/edit any type of entry)
• Staff (bypasses permissions, can access Database Admin area)

There are 2 ways you can create a user from the command line:

1. Passing user's password as an argument:

python manage.py createuser --username <username> --password <password>

This will create a user with the standard privileges.

1. Interactively setting user's password:

python manage.py createuser --username <username>

You will then be prompted to enter and confirm a password.

• If you want to create a user with read only privileges, pass in the --read_only flag:

python manage.py createuser --username <username> --password <password> --read-only

• If you want to create a user with the highest level of permission, you can append the --is-staff argument:

python manage.py createuser --username <username> --is-staff

• Another argument you can use with this command is --email

python manage.py createuser --username <username> --email <email>

• To get a list of supported commands:

python manage.py createuser --help