Creating New Updater Accounts

Updater uses the built-in Django user authentication libraries to handle user authentication. See here for more details.

To create a new account (i.e. betta, admin, steven) for Updater, simply do the following:

1. SSH to updater.mobilizingcs.org

2. Navigate to /home/william/newupdater/uproject/

3. Open up the Django shell by running: ./manage.py shell

4. Type the following into the Django shell prompt:

from django.contrib.auth.models import User
# Replace USERNAME and PASSWORD with desired user/pass
u = User.objects.create_user('USERNAME', '', 'PASSWORD')
u.save()