How to Set Your User as Staff or Superuser

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

Use Cases

• Test Onboarding as an admin (at URL /workbench/onboarding/admin).

Steps

1. Login to docker shell:

   docker exec -it core_portal_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()

4. (If needed) Inspect SetupEvents to view logs

   from portal.apps.onboarding.models import SetupEvent
   # Get your user model (change "my_username" to your username)
   # Inspect your user setup events, if things go wrong and we need additional debugging data
   events = SetupEvent.objects.all().filter(user=my_user)
   print(events)

Related

• TACC/Core-CMS: How to Set Your User as Staff or Superuser
• DesignSafe-CI/portal: How to Set Your User as Staff or Superuser
• Confluence: CMS Setup & Configuration