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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