Not able to create super user with Django manage.py

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Trying to create a super user for my database:

manage.py createsuperuser

Getting a sad recursive message:

Superuser creation skipped due to not running in a TTY. You can run manage.py createsuperuser in your project to create one manually.

Seriously Django? Seriously?

The only information I found for this was the one listed above but it didn't work: Unable to create superuser in django due to not working in TTY

And this other one here, which is basically the same: Can't Create Super User Django

Are you using a virtual environment? What kind? Are you running this from the command line inside your virtualenv, or some other way like in an IDE? — YPCrumble, Sep 11 '15 at 23:50
@YPCrumble Running this from both PyCharm and plain terminal, no virtual environment — gerosalesc, Sep 11 '15 at 23:53
For me on macOS, I needed to enable the Run Configuration option "Emulate terminal in output console". Fixed the problem in PyCharm 2019.1.3. — phoenix, Jun 26 '19 at 14:32

Evgeny Bobkin · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-15T08:31:31.103

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If you run

$ python manage.py createsuperuser
Superuser creation skipped due to not running in a TTY. You can run manage.py createsuperuser in your project to create one manually.

from Git Bash and face the above error message try to append winpty i.e. for example:

$ winpty python manage.py createsuperuser
Username (leave blank to use '...'):

To be able to run python commands as usual on windows as well what I normally do is appending an alias line to the ~/.profile file i.e.

 MINGW64 ~$ cat ~/.profile
 alias python='winpty python'

After doing so, either source the ~/.profile file or simply restart the terminal and the initial command python manage.py createsuperuser should work as expected!

edited Jun 15 '16 at 08:31

answered May 07 '16 at 20:55

Evgeny Bobkin

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this also works through docker if you run `winpty docker-compose run python manage.py createsuperuser` – tessafyi Jul 16 '18 at 17:52
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Could you explain what `winpty` is and does? – Paul Wintz Dec 23 '19 at 07:44
When I tried run above command it gives "No module named 'fcntl' " error. But fcntl is not available for windows. Any suggestion? – Naveen Verma Feb 17 '20 at 12:10

score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 13 '19 at 12:29

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I had same problem when trying to create superuser in the docker container with command: sudo docker exec -i <container_name> sh. Adding option -t solved the problem:

sudo docker exec -it <container_name> sh

answered Apr 13 '19 at 12:29

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score 6 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 13 '20 at 08:51

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In virtualenv, for creating super-user for Django project related to git-bash use the command:

winpty python manage.py createsuperuser.

edited Apr 13 '20 at 08:51

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answered Apr 13 '20 at 03:12

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 15 '19 at 18:02

To create an admin username and password, you must first use the command:

python manage.py migrate

Then after use the command:

python manage.py createsuperuser

Once these steps are complete, the program will ask you to enter:

username
email
password

With the password, it will not show as you are typing so it will appear as though you are not typing, but ignore it as it will ask you to renter the password. When you complete these steps, use the command:

python manage.py runserver

In the browser add "/admin", which will take you to the admin site, and then type in your new username and password.

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 20 '20 at 05:12

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I tried creating superuser from Stash [ App: Pythonista on iOS ]

[ Make sure migrations are already made ]

$ django-admin createsuperuser

answered Nov 20 '20 at 05:12

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score -3 · Answer 6 · edited Nov 20 '19 at 23:46

I figured out how to do so. What I did was I went to VIEWS.py. Next, I imported the module os. Then I created a function called createSuperUser(request):. Then, I then created a variable called admin and set it equal to os.system("python manage.py createsuperuser"). Then after that, return admin. Finally, I restarted the Django site, then it will prompt you in the terminal.

import os

def createSuperUser(request):
    admin = os.system("python manage.py createsuperuser")
    return

Not able to create super user with Django manage.py

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