Self‑hosted: Admin user not seeded on first boot despite FLAG_AUTH_ENABLED=true and dashboard creds set

[14deepu]

Summary

When running nangohq/nango-server:hosted with FLAG_AUTH_ENABLED=true and NANGO_DASHBOARD_USERNAME / NANGO_DASHBOARD_PASSWORD set, the dashboard does not create the admin user on first boot. Instead, the database contains a placeholder user (unknown@example.com).

What I expected

• On first boot with an empty Postgres volume, the server should seed the dashboard admin user from:

NANGO_DASHBOARD_USERNAME=admin@example.com
NANGO_DASHBOARD_PASSWORD=Admin@123

• Dashboard should prompt for login; supplied credentials should work.
• _nango_users table in postgress should ideally contain the configured admin user (not a placeholder) if I am not mistaken.

What actually happened

• After multiple clean attempts (removing the DB volume and recreating), the first boot results in a placeholder user:

id: 0
name: unknown
email: unknown@example.com
hashed_password: unkown
salt: unknown

• No way to log in with the provided env credentials because the admin user was not created.

[linear]

NAN-4598

[github-actions]

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