create_user(..., is_staff=True) raises TypeError multiple values for keyword argument 'is_staff'

[Coen van der Kamp]

When I do:

>>> from django.contrib.auth.models import User
>>> user = User.objects.create_user('test', email='test@example.com', password='password', is_staff=True)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Users/coen/git/prive/tvdordrecht.nl/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/models.py", line 183, in create_user
    **extra_fields)
TypeError: _create_user() got multiple values for keyword argument 'is_staff'

Expected:

>>> user.is_staff
True

From StackOverflow:
​http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30711544/create-staff-user-in-django/30946633#30946633

Related ​https://github.com/bak1an/django/commit/dc2f67679712412e2f8bdfbecc340f796d6dbc24
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/20541

[Baptiste Mispelon]

I can indeed reproduce the issue.

Interestingly, prior to cab333cb16656cbb7d2bcfb06b2f7aeab9bac7af (which landed in 1.6), doing User.objects.create_user(..., is_staff=True) actually worked, but User.objects.create_superuser(..., is_staff=False) would raise a similar error to what we have now.

I think the fix should be to allow these parameters to be passed. It can lead to weird code like User.objects.create_superuser(..., is_superuser=False) but I don't think we should code against that.

The fix is then quite straighforward:

    def create_user(self, username, email=None, password=None, **extra_fields):
        extra_fields.setdefault('is_staff', False)
        extra_fields.setdefault('is_superuser', False)
        return self._create_user(username, email, password, **extra_fields)

    def create_superuser(self, username, email, password, **extra_fields):
        extra_fields.setdefault('is_staff', True)
        extra_fields.setdefault('is_superuser', True)
        return self._create_user(username, email, password, **extra_fields)

[Coen van der Kamp]

Seems like we can have a cheeseburger without cheese :). Forgiveness is cool. But we can also raise an error for the superuser.

def create_user(self, username, email=None, password=None, **extra_fields):
    extra_fields.setdefault('is_staff', False)
    extra_fields.setdefault('is_superuser', False)
    return self._create_user(username, email, password, **extra_fields)

def create_superuser(self, username, email, password, **extra_fields):
    if extra_fields.has_key('is_staff') and extra_fields.get('is_staff') is False:
        raise ValueError('Superuser needs to be staff. Do not set `is_staff`.')
    if extra_fields.has_key('is_superuser') and extra_fields.get('is_superuser') is False:
        raise ValueError('Superuser needs to be superuser. Do not set `is_superuser`.')
    extra_fields.setdefault('is_staff', True)
    extra_fields.setdefault('is_superuser', True)
    return self._create_user(username, email, password, **extra_fields)

[Tim Graham <timograham@…>]

In e75b6146:

Fixed #25009 -- Allowed User.objects.create_user(...,is_staff=True) to work.