How to Set Your User as Staff or Superuser

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

Use Cases

• To be able to work in the CMS admin interface to change user-facing content.

Steps

1. Login to docker shell:

   docker exec -it des_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()

Related

• TACC/Core-Portal: How to Set Your User as Staff or Superuser
• TACC/Core-CMS: How to Set Your User as Staff or Superuser