= How to run {{{manage.py syncdb}}} without being prompted to create a superuser =

'''This applies only to post-magic-removal versions of Django, pre [3660].'''

In [3660] or greater, the problem described on this page can be solved by providing the ``--noinput`` argument to ``./manage.py``, or by calling ``management.syncdb(interactive=False)``.

'''Disable the signal'''

In my project I found it annoying being prompted to create a superuser everytime I ran {{{manage.py syncdb}}} or from my custom installation script {{{management.syncdb()}}}. Delving a little deeper I found that I could disable this by "disconnecting" {{{django.contrib.auth.mangement.create_superuser}}} from the new event dispatcher in Django.

The following snippet does just that.

{{{
#!python
from django.core import management
from django.dispatch import dispatcher
from django.contrib.auth.management import create_superuser
from django.contrib.auth import models as auth_app
from django.db.models import signals

dispatcher.disconnect(create_superuser, sender=auth_app, signal=signals.post_syncdb)
management.syncdb()
}}}

Now if I could only make {{{management.syncdb()}}} less verbose.

'''alternative approach'''

Another alternative is to change the implementation of {{{django.contrib.auth.mangement.create_superuser}}} to the following:
{{{
#!python
def create_superuser(app, created_models):
    from django.contrib.auth.models import User
    if User in created_models:
        from django.contrib.auth.create_superuser import createsuperuser
        import settings
        createsuperuser(settings.SUPERUSER, settings.SUPERUSER_EMAIL, settings.SUPERUSER_PASSWORD)
}}}

Above code will create superuser based on the {{{settings}}} of your project.