Create first admin user with environment variables at deploy time

[lazyest]

Scope & Context

At initial deployment phase there is no clear way to create admin user

Current behavior

Currently as far as I see there is no way to create new user except of WebUI

Expected behavior

Will be useful to have a kind of variables AUTH_USER/AUTH_PASSWORD to create first user in deploy time. Alternatively if there is a CLI way to do exactly same things, please mention it in documentation more dedicated. Thanks

[BOHEUS]

At deployment, there is a default user with credentials tim@apple.dev/Applecar2025 which are present in documentation but also pre-filled (assuming SIGN_IN_PREFILLED=true is present in .env file)

[lazyest]

this is better then nothing but maybe there is a way to do exactly new user as declared in environment? Or at least to plan it doing this way

[BOHEUS]

I don't know about the way to overwrite first user credentials nor do I know about the plans to make it

[lazyest]

btw SIGN_IN_PREFILLED=true didnt work for me, its anyhow asking for creating new user
tried both setting it in env and directly in docker-compose for server container

[FelixMalfait]

Hey, what's the use-case for this? Maybe there are options but it's hard to tell without context.
Is it for a server with a single workspace? Will every user have an email address with the same domain name?
Thanks!

[lazyest]

I prefer to have at least server-wide option

My intention is to have way to deploy ready-to-use app for providing login details only to some external user with machine up and running and waiting for user to login.

[FelixMalfait]

So you've got 1 server with a multi-tenant setup, or multiple server with 1 tenant on each?
Why not use the API? On the cloud we have the captcha guard but on a self-hosted instance there should be any issue. You can make the same GraphQL call we use to create users on the frontend for every new user/workspace you want to provision?

[lazyest]

single self hosted server I want to provide to less advanced person with kind of credentials to access is my goal
honestly I didnt get simple way to use API for that, thats why I'm asking

[FelixMalfait]

Open the network tab when you signup and you'll see the graphql calls, you can just re-use them :)

You can also play around with the graphql console https://twenty.com/developers/graphql/core