Can I use an existing user as Django admin when enabling admin for the first time?

Question

I have built a Django site for a while, but I never enabled Django admin.

User accounts are registered on both LDAP and Django, but the master record is based on LDAP. So I must use the account in LDAP as super user.

When I enable Django Admin, I am prompted to create a super user. Can I use an existing account (registered on both LDAP and Django db) as super user?

How?

Answer 1

Yes, but you'll do it through the Django shell:

python manage.py shell 

Then fetch your user from the database:

from django.contrib.auth.models import User user = User.objects.get(username="myname") user.is_staff = True user.is_admin = True user.save() 

Exit the shell, and that user will now be an admin user.

You can also add the line

user.is_superuser = True 

before calling user.save() if you want or need this user to be a superuser and have all the available permissions.

Answer 2

The accepted answer generated an error on Django 3:

AttributeError: Manager isn't available; 'auth.User' has been swapped for 'users.User' 

From Django shell:

python manage.py shell 

Run this:

from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model User = get_user_model() user = User.objects.get(username="myname") user.is_staff = True user.is_admin = True user.is_superuser = True user.save()