Creating a new account in your local Clowder instance - SouthernMethodistUniversity/furry-chainsaw GitHub Wiki

If you've set up and have your local instance of Clowder running on Docker, you can now set up an account for you to login on your local instance. Firstly, navigate to the main folder from which the container is running. Now, enter the following command to view running networks:

docker network ls

This should list several running containers/networks. One will likely say clowder_clowder. If that is the case, we will use that, if not, take note of the running container named something related to Clowder. At the time of writing this with the repo name furry chainsaw, my network name was furry-chainsaw_clowder .

Next, execute the command:

docker run -ti --rm --network (the name you found here, like clowder_clowder) clowder/mongo-init

If you encounter an error with the network name, go try the previous command the check the name over again. Additionally, the last value has had mixed values in the Clowder documentation. Sometimes its denoted as clowder/mongo-init, sometimes the hyphen is replaced with an underscore (clowder/mongo_init), so be prepared to try both of these. Once this command goes through, it will prompt you to create an account on your local instance. Beware if doing in a public setting, as the password and all fields will be shown in plaintext.