How to Set Your User as Staff or Superuser - DesignSafe-CI/portal GitHub Wiki

Some tasks require a developer to have a user with staff-level permissions.

Use Cases

  • To be able to work in the CMS admin interface to change user-facing content.

Steps

  1. Login to docker shell:

    docker exec -it des_django /bin/bash

  2. Enter python shell:

    python manage.py shell

  3. Find & Update your user:

    from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
my_user = get_user_model().objects.get(username="my_username")
# Set your local user to be "staff" or "superuser"
my_user.is_staff = True
my_user.is_superuser = True
my_user.save()

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