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

0. Completely shut down all of your containers and restart them.

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)
• Confluence: CMS Setup & Configuration