id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	stage	has_patch	needs_docs	needs_tests	needs_better_patch	easy	ui_ux
798	Specifying username, email, and password on as arguments to "django-admin.py createsuperuser"	bjorn@…	Adrian Holovaty	"We're frequently rebuilding the entire Django database environment, and it's a pain to specify the username, email, and password to the createsuperuser command.  This patch enable you to specify these on the command line so the process can be completely automated/ done in a batch script.


Index: django/bin/django-admin.py
===================================================================
--- django/bin/django-admin.py	(revision 1235)
+++ django/bin/django-admin.py	(working copy)
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
         translation.activate('en-us')

     if action in ('createsuperuser', 'init', 'validate'):
-        ACTION_MAPPING[action]()
+        ACTION_MAPPING[action](*args[1:])
     elif action == 'inspectdb':
         try:
             param = args[1]
Index: django/core/management.py
===================================================================
--- django/core/management.py	(revision 1235)
+++ django/core/management.py	(working copy)
@@ -480,39 +480,43 @@
 startapp.help_doc = ""Creates a Django app directory structure for the given app name in the current directory.""
 startapp.args = ""[appname]""

-def createsuperuser():
+def createsuperuser(username=None, email=None, password=None):
     ""Creates a superuser account.""
     from django.core import validators
     from django.models.auth import users
     import getpass
     try:
         while 1:
-            username = raw_input('Username (only letters, digits and underscores): ')
+            if not username: username = raw_input('Username (only letters, digits and underscores): ')
             if not username.isalnum():
-                sys.stderr.write(""Error: That username is invalid.\n"")
-                continue
+                sys.stderr.write(""Error: That username is invalid\n"")
+                username = None
             try:
                 users.get_object(username__exact=username)
             except users.UserDoesNotExist:
                 break
             else:
-                sys.stderr.write(""Error: That username is already taken.\n"")
+                sys.stderr.write(""Error: That username is already taken\n"")
+                username = None
         while 1:
-            email = raw_input('E-mail address: ')
+            if not email: email = raw_input('E-mail address: ')
             try:
                 validators.isValidEmail(email, None)
             except validators.ValidationError:
-                sys.stderr.write(""Error: That e-mail address is invalid.\n"")
+                sys.stderr.write(""Error: That e-mail address is invalid\n"")
+                email = None
             else:
                 break
         while 1:
-            password = getpass.getpass()
-            password2 = getpass.getpass('Password (again): ')
-            if password != password2:
-                sys.stderr.write(""Error: Your passwords didn't match.\n"")
-                continue
+            if not password:
+                password = getpass.getpass()
+                password2 = getpass.getpass('Password (again): ')
+                if password != password2:
+                    sys.stderr.write(""Error: Your passwords didn't match.\n"")
+                    continue
             if password.strip() == '':
                 sys.stderr.write(""Error: Blank passwords aren't allowed.\n"")
+                password = None
                 continue
             break
     except KeyboardInterrupt:
@@ -524,7 +528,7 @@
     u.is_superuser = True
     u.save()
     print ""User created successfully.""
-createsuperuser.args = ''
+createsuperuser.args = '[optional username, email, password]'

 def inspectdb(db_name):
     ""Generator that introspects the tables in the given database name and returns a Django model, one line at a time."""	task	closed	Translations	0.91	trivial	fixed			Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	0	0