Strapi Plugin - Bootstrap admin user

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Hello,

I’ve created a strapi plugin, which automatically creates the admin user on the development environment.

The first step verifies if the strapi-super-admin role exists; if it doesn’t exist, it creates one. The second step verifies if the admin user exists; if it doesn’t exist, it creates one with the strapi-super-admin role.

Installation

Yarn

yarn add strapi-plugin-bootstrap-admin-user

npm

npm install strapi-plugin-bootstrap-admin-user

Usage

Credentials will be outputed in console on the First run in the development environment.
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Default credentials

Username: admin  
Password: admin  
Firstname: Admin  
Lastname: Admin  
Email: admin@strapi.dev

You can also define default credentials in .env with the following variables:

DEV_ADMIN_USERNAME  
DEV_ADMIN_PASSWORD
DEV_ADMIN_FIRSTNAME
DEV_ADMIN_LASTNAME
DEV_ADMIN_EMAIL

Note: Please use it only in the development environment.

Feel free to check it out on npm. Also, feel free to contribute to it on GitHub.

Thanks.

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Awesome thank you @sunnyson

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Awesome plugin! I wanted to run this on my other environments besides development. But I was curious why did you choose to just run it on development? I understand the security concerns of creating a weak admin user but having the script setup with environment variables I am planning on passing those into the running process in the other environments. Thoughts?

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Hmm, yeah, I’ve limited it to dev env to avoid cases when someone forgets about it when migrating to prod. I will add tomorrow an extra env variable that will allow the plugin to be runned in any env.

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In my case I use it only on dev, as all my local projects have the same credentials for faster development and seamless switching between projects. Also, I’ve added a button to VS code that adds the package automatically when clicking on it, if you want I can share it too. As it is very useful to create the Admin user in one click without typing yarn add strapi-plugin-bootstrap-admin-user.

6

@alexleone
I’ve added a new env variable: DEV_ADMIN_ALLOW. Set it to true to allow admin creation in any environment.
Update plugin to @latest version

7

Check here.

8

Awesome! I am going give it a try. Thanks for making the update!!

9

You should add it to GitHub - strapi/awesome-strapi: A curated list of awesome things related to Strapi

10

We do love pull requests to that repo and I am the one who reviews and merges them :wink: