How to Create Super User Account in Django

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This article is written on a certain purpose for defining about how to create an account which is a super user account in web-based application powered with Django web-based framework. The account itself will be used to log to the admin page. The most important thing is to have the table named ‘auth_user’ after executing certain command. Those commands are shown below :

1. Assumed that Django has been already installed, below is the command to create a new project :

django-admin startproject myproject

2. After the project has been successfully created, below is the command to create a new app within the project or inside the project

django-admin startapp myapp

3. The next step is the step for creating a new user which is done by executing the following command :

python manage.py createsuperuser

The output generated from the above executed command can be shown as follows :

user@hostname:~/myproject$ python manage.py createsuperuser
Username (leave blank to use 'user'): root
Email address: root@local.myapp.web
Password: 
Password (again): 
Superuser created successfully.
user@hostname:~/myproject$ 

In order to prove whether the account has been created or not, below is the content or the record inserted after creating a new super user :

user@hostname:/opt/pycharm-community-2017.3.1/bin$ psql -Upostgres
Password for user postgres: 
psql (9.5.9, server 9.3.10)
Type "help" for help.

postgres=# CREATE USER test WITH PASSWORD 'test';
CREATE ROLE
postgres=# CREATE DATABASE school OWNER test;
CREATE DATABASE
postgres=# use test;
ERROR:  syntax error at or near "use"
LINE 1: use test;
        ^

postgres=# \c test
psql (9.5.9, server 9.3.10)
You are now connected to database "test" as user "postgres".
test=# \dt
                    List of relations                                                                                                                                                                                             
 Schema |              Name              | Type  | Owner                                                                                                                                                                          
--------+--------------------------------+-------+-------                                                                                                                                                                         
 public | auth_group                     | table | test                                                                                                                                                                           
 public | auth_group_permissions         | table | test                                                                                                                                                                           
 public | auth_permission                | table | test                                                                                                                                                                           
 public | auth_user                      | table | test                                                                                                                                                                           
 public | auth_user_groups               | table | test                                                                                                                                                                           
 public | auth_user_user_permissions     | table | test                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
 public | django_admin_log               | table | test                                                                                                                                                                           
 public | django_content_type            | table | test                                                                                                                                                                           
 public | django_migrations              | table | test                                                                                                                                                                           
 public | django_session                 | table | test                                                                                                                                                                           
(13 rows)

test=#

As shown in the above output of the database named ‘test’ used from the application. It reveals a table named auth_user which is used to create a new created user. The user which is created from the above command. In order to make sure the user’s data, just select :

test=# select * from auth_user;

Below is the output of the PostgreSQL Query executed :

 id |                                   password                                    |          last_login           | is_superuser | username | first_name | last_name |           email           | is_staff | is_active |          date_joined          
----+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------+--------------+----------+------------+-----------+---------------------------+----------+-----------+-------------------------------
  1 | pbkdf2_sha256$24000$kd1kvyrKbx0p$LMb66uCdzS+jQK/6a/OZm8V6C52tM8S9hmdHKnG/DnE= | 2018-01-13 10:31:09.863052+07 | t            | root     |            |           | root@local.myapp.web | t        | t         | 2018-01-13 10:30:52.614766+07
(1 row)

(END)

For further checkup, it can be done by accessing the admin page and try to log into the admin dashboard panel as shown below :

 

How to Create Super User Account in Django
How to Create Super User Account in Django

 

Just use the account created in the previous step which is ‘root’ and the try to login to the administrator panel of Django web-based framework where it can be accessed in the URL of : http://localhost:8000/admin. Basically the URL is an URL provided for a development testing. It is done by executing the command below :

python manage.py runserver

If the root account or any other name used for the super user account has successfully created, the following administrator panel of Django web-based framework will be successfully accessed based on the username and the password previously given in the step for creating the user :

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