How do I add superuser to Django?

You can have more than one user with id 0 in /etc/passwd , each of which having root privileges. There are a small number of cases when this is preferable over sudo.

Run the following command:

A superuser is just a convenience method to create a user with all permissions . They are just normal users given staff and all permissions by default.

superuser. – The most powerful user with permissions to create, read, update and delete data in the Django admin , which includes model records and other users. staff. – A user marked as staff can access the Django admin.

There is no way to delete it from the Terminal (unfortunately), but you can delete it directly . Just log into the admin page, click on the user you want to delete, scroll down to the bottom and press delete.

Note that this won’t prevent from setting a user as being a superuser from django admin interface. If you want to completely make it impossible to create two superusers, you can add the constraint on the database level directly . Show activity on this post. You can write a script to check number of superuser.