How to create user from django shell

Question

When i create user from django-admin user password's are encrypted . but when i create user from django shell user-pasword is saved in plain text . Example :

{     "date_joined": "2013-08-28T04:22:56.322185",     "email": "",     "first_name": "",     "id": 5,     "is_active": true,     "is_staff": false,     "is_superuser": false,     "last_login": "2013-08-28T04:22:56.322134",     "last_name": "",     "password": "pbkdf2_sha256$10000$iGKbck9CED0b$6hWrKYiMPNGKhcfPVGal2YP4LkuP3Qwem+2ydswWACk=",     "resource_uri": "/api/v1/user/5/",     "username": "user4" }, {     "date_joined": "2013-08-29T01:15:36.414887",     "email": "test@ophio",     "first_name": "",     "id": 6,     "is_active": true,     "is_staff": true,     "is_superuser": true,     "last_login": "2013-08-29T01:15:36.414807",     "last_name": "",     "password": "123test",     "resource_uri": "/api/v1/user/6/",     "username": "test3" }  

I am trying to make REST style api for a simple blog app : when i try to insert a user by post request [ by passing JSON ] password is saved as plain text. how to override this behaviour.

Answer 1

You should not create the user via the normal User(...) syntax, as others have suggested. You should always use User.objects.create_user(), which takes care of setting the password properly.

user@host> manage.py shell >>> from django.contrib.auth.models import User >>> user=User.objects.create_user('foo', password='bar') >>> user.is_superuser=True >>> user.is_staff=True >>> user.save() 

Answer 2

The fastest way creating of super user for django, type in shell:

python manage.py createsuperuser